Its on 6 karma now, but I suspect the downvote was due to the language being a little obtuse to those who don’t know the jargon. Indexical construction of evidence really means nothing to me (a PhD student in statistics), and I suspect it means nothing to others.
Sorry about that. I should have remembered that I was using what is mostly a philosophical term of art. The concept that JonathanLivengood explains is the one I’m referring to. Indexical statements/beliefs are also known as “centered worlds” (i.e. world-observer pairs as opposed to mere worlds), “attitudes de se”, or “self-locating beliefs”.
Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Philosophers use this language all the time, and I sometimes forget what is common speech and what is not. An index in this case is like a pointer. Words like “this,” “here,” “now,” “I,” are all indexicals—they indicate as if by gesturing (and sometimes, actually by gesturing).
Its on 6 karma now, but I suspect the downvote was due to the language being a little obtuse to those who don’t know the jargon. Indexical construction of evidence really means nothing to me (a PhD student in statistics), and I suspect it means nothing to others.
Sorry about that. I should have remembered that I was using what is mostly a philosophical term of art. The concept that JonathanLivengood explains is the one I’m referring to. Indexical statements/beliefs are also known as “centered worlds” (i.e. world-observer pairs as opposed to mere worlds), “attitudes de se”, or “self-locating beliefs”.
Ah! Yes, that makes sense. Philosophers use this language all the time, and I sometimes forget what is common speech and what is not. An index in this case is like a pointer. Words like “this,” “here,” “now,” “I,” are all indexicals—they indicate as if by gesturing (and sometimes, actually by gesturing).