Are 'here' and 'now' indexicals?
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What about 'here' and 'now'? They are standardly treated as pure indexicals. Much as 'I' refers to the speaker, 'now' is said to refer to the time of utterance and 'here' to the place of utterance. But there is a well-known difficulty: the so-called vagueness of 'here' and 'now'. 'Here' and 'now' can refer to temporal or spatial regions of any size, provided the region in question contains the utterance.
URL: http://jeannicod.ccsd.cnrs.fr/documents/disk0/00/00/01/58/ijn_00000158_00/ijn_00000158_00.rtf
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