Choose a sentence with at least one demonstrative/indexical in it and perform the following analysis: Literal Meaning How would the Fregean theory have to analyze the propositional content of the demonstrative/indexical? How does Kaplan′s theory analyze it? Explain your answers including how the given theorist arrives at that answer of what the propositional content is and how it relates to the referent of the demonstrative or indexical. Pragmatic Meaning Are there any implicatures that your sentence in a given context has? You can invent a context, or else (and this might be more fun), if you find a sentence out in the wild somewhere, you can include its context here for the purposes of this analysis. Recall that these can be conversational or conventional. How would Grice analyze the implicature? Does it violate any of his maxims of cooperation? Reflective Question Does the semantic content (that is, the propositional content) change for the sentence when we go to different possible ways the world might have been for Frege′s analysis? What about for Kaplan′s? Does the truth-value change? (remember that you can invent any circumstances you like for different possibilities – try to think of a possible way the world might have been in which the truth-values for Frege′s analysis and Kaplan′s analysis differ – remember also the same propositional content is evaluated first at the actual and then the other world to test its truth.) How about the pragmatic content? Might it have different implicatures in other contexts of use? Sometimes words can be used to do different things – is there a case that would violate a different maxim from the one you had in mind earlier in the paper? Explain your answer. — If you rely on any passages from these or other sources, please cite them. It is best to avoid outside sources. Aim for about 4-5 pages or 1000-1250 words. Good luck, have fun!
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