He is usually an Italian, but he isn’t
He is usually an Italian, but he isn’t

Summary/Abstract: In a recent article “Traditionally, I am entitled to a last meal“ (Organon F 18, 2011, No. 1) Bjørn Jespersen argued against treating the descriptive uses of indexicals as an argument for the revision of the semantics of indexicals – he opposed the view argued for by Nunberg (1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 2004, 2004a), Recanati (1993, 2005), Kijania- Placek (2010, 2010a) and others that on their descriptive uses indexicals contribute general concepts instead of individual ones to the proposition expressed and generate general instead of singular propositions. These kind of uses were first systematically studied by Nunberg and the main paper on the subject is still his “Indexicality and deixis”. Jespersen relies on a version of Nunberg’s example and I will use it as well to explain the main idea.

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