By this he means that the content of an indexical, with respect to a context \(c\), is the object to which it refers in \(c\); its content is not a property or descriptive condition that determines the referent.
Then it was a noun; today it exists mostly as a verb, though its meaning is largely the same: it refers, in an American context, to drawing legislative districts in order to maximise partisan advantage.
In 166 it refers in subsection 7-B to the "intent of the voter".
It is understood it refers in part to a period in 2002 when Rebekah Brooks was editor of the paper.
Similarly, it referred in a critical fashion to the Daily Mail's bulks, which amounted to 72,208, a substantial reduction on the previous February's total of 88,595 (-18.5%).
It refers, in this context, to casinos' gobbling up one anothers' customers, which for some of them may be the only route to survival.
It refers in particular to the conchs and whelks that many Italian-Americans have encountered on their grandparents' tables, probably among the seven fishes at Christmastime, possibly in a marinara sauce.
But, as Dewey observes in his seventh chapter, it refers in everyday discourse to something direct and active.
'Performative' is another technical term, and as used here it refers in the first instance to a kind of sentence.
It refers, in this article, as denotation computing for determining the relative density of sand using CPT data.
