David Kaplan's foundational essay developing the formal logic of indexicals and demonstratives, distinguishing character from content.
Provides a two-level semantic framework: character (context-to-content function) and content (circumstance-to-extension function), with a formal logic LD for reasoning about indexical expressions.
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