ABSTRACT
This chapter contains a very brief introduction to an indexicals, perhaps just framing an issue, followed by an example. It is followed by a short discussion and then a series of questions. There is a particular class of expression, the truth of which depends upon the location at which it is uttered or written down. The example presents a case on a truth-conditional analysis of the sentence. In order to make sense of the truth-conditions of indexical expressions, people need some technical apparatus. In particular they will need the notions of a context and a character. The questions are intended to get the philosophy students thinking about the problems. They have used these kinds of questions in seminars as the questions set for seminars, so they also think that they can be used to spark conversation and discussion. The chapter also gives a cursory sketch of some of the ways in which philosophers have responded to the thought experiment.
