Indexicals

Reading: Chaphter 11 of Lycan

Questions:

1. What is the difference between semantics and pragmatics?

2. Do sentences have meanings outside of context? If they dont, what does that mean for the semantics/pragmatics distinction?

3. What is the near side/ far side pragmatics distinction?

4. I ask you 'when did you stop hitting your wife?'. What does my question presuppose?

5. Are presuppositions part of the semantic or pragmatic content of a sentence?

6. Why are indexicals essential to language?

7. What is an 'index' in the sense on pg 140?

8. What would the suggestion on pg 140 have as the truth conditions of
'are you here now'?

9. On pg 141 another set of truth conditions for 'are you here now' is suggested. What are they? How can we accomodate them?