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What does “This” mean? Deixis and the semantics of demonstratives in stoic propositions

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This paper reconstructs the Stoic theory of deixis in order to explain the importance placed by the Stoics on demonstrative pronouns and the so-called definite propositions they compose. I argue that these propositions are privileged by the Stoics on both ontological and epistemological grounds because of the semantic properties of their subjects. They are firstly privileged on ontological grounds because their subjects, which refer by deixis alone, bear a privileged relationship to matter, t...

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10.4000/methodos.6023

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
Oxford college:
Corpus Christi College
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Author
Publisher:
OpenEdition Publisher's website
Journal:
Méthodos Journal website
Volume:
19
Article number:
6023
Publication date:
2019-02-04
Acceptance date:
2018-10-30
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EISSN:
1769-7379
ISSN:
1626-0600
Language:
English
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1089056
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pubs:1089056
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2020-02-26

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