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On Spurious Egocentricity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

A. N. Prior
A. N. Prior
Affiliation:
Balliol College, Oxford
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Extract

It is frequently said that words like ‘now’, ‘then’, ‘ago’, ‘present’, ‘past’, ‘future’ and the various indications of tense, are ‘egocentric’ or ‘token-reflexive’ in character. I want to suggest, on the contrary, that the apparent egocentricity or token-reflexiveness of this class of expression is deceptive. It is perhaps not easy to see how on a point of this sort deception is possible, but a parallel case may make the position clearer.

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Philosophy , Volume 42 , Issue 162 , October 1967 , pp. 326 - 335
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1967

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