The First-Person Plural and Immunity to Error

Joel Smith

doi:10.2478/disp-2018-0010

The First-Person Plural and Immunity to Error

Joel Smith

Philosophy

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Abstract

I argue for the view that some we-thoughts are immune to error through misidentification (IEM) relative to the first-person plural pronoun. To prepare the ground for this argument I defend an account of the semantics of ‘we’ and note the variety of different uses of that term. I go on to defend the IEM of a certain range of we-thoughts against a number of objections.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-167
Number of pages	27
Journal	Disputatio
Volume	10
Issue number	49
Early online date	30 Nov 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2018-0010
Publication status	Published - Nov 2018

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First-person plural
Immunity to error
Indexicals

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