Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Tag: first-person singular pronoun

  • Personal and Impersonal Uses of the First-Person Singular Pronoun

    Panayot Butchvarov in his latest book claims that the first-person singular pronoun as it functions in such typical philosophical contexts as the Cartesian cogito is "a dangling pronoun, a pronoun without an antecedent noun."  (Anthropocentrism in Philosophy: Realism, Antirealism, Semirealism, Walter de Gruyter, 2015, p. 40)  In this entry I will try to understand and…