In this situation, the facial expressions are sometimes combined with both emotions and expressed utterances [40].
This definition is questioned by the assumption that thoughts or propositions are expressed by utterances (or speakers).
If they do not, then they are in a position to believe what is expressed by an utterance of 'Today is fine' without believing what is expressed by an utterance of 'The day of this utterance is fine', in which case, by Accept, the two sentence express different propositions.
How can the proposition expressed by an utterance of (7) be both true and about Pegasus?
It is not clear why a fictionalist hypothesis about which proposition is expressed in an utterance should incur an obligation to a compositional fictionalist semantics.
Consider an experience whose contents include those that are expressed by an utterance of 'There is a red cube at location location
Arguably, it is essential to the proposition that Ava believes the proposition expressed by an utterance of (2)—that it is about Jospin and the property of being a Socialist.
She could then claim that the thought expressed by an utterance of (6) is itself irreducibly indexical and is only true or false relative to an assignment of parameters and in particular to a day).
On the Fregean view, what is essential to the thought or proposition expressed by an utterance of a sentence containing a singular term is its sense, not its reference.
As a typical ingredient of this general framework, when an assertion is made, the proposition expressed by the utterance is presented as "relevant to the hearer" (2010: 163), where 'relevant' is a technical term (Sperber & Wilson 1995: 265).
The latter, 'hidden indexicalists,' admit the 'unarticulated' content into the proposition literally expressed by the utterance, but hold that it is not 'really' unarticulated, since below the surface grammar, at some deeper level, say logical form, the sentence provide an indexical to be resolved pragmatically (Stanley 2000; Stanley and Szabo 2000).
