COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE AND BEHAVIOUR
Vojislav Božičković
COGNITIVE SIGNIFICANCE AND BEHAVIOUR
In this paper, I argue that, in spite of their seeming divergence, interpersonal utterances of ‘I’ and ‘you’ may have the same cognitive significance much as intrapersonal utterances of ‘today’ and ‘yesterday’. In so doing, I show that relevant rival views, both those that treat the two cases alike and those that treat them differently, lack convincing motivation. The way in which I individuate the bearers of cognitive significance also makes no room for explaining the subject’s behaviour in terms of the linguistic meanings of the indexicals that the subject deploys.