RETENTION AND MEANING
RETENTION AND MEANING

Summary/Abstract: Some philosophers have tried to account for belief retention and our belief states concerning days that we track and think of in terms of the linguistic meaning of the indexicals we use to refer to them such as ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’. In this paper I discuss a couple of representative attempts to show that this is the case and argue that they are implausible. I end up proposing an alternative view that explains the relevant data better. In so doing, both for illustrative and argumentative purposes, I show that in this respect the case concerning days is not different from the case featuring spatio-temporal objects.

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