Abstract

An indexical is an expression whose meaning stays constant across contexts while its reference shifts. This chapter confronts the claim that many constructions of natural language contain ‘hidden’ indexical elements. It does so, in the first place, by proffering a _reductio_ argument against Stanley and Szabo’s ‘argument from binding’, which states that there is syntactic evidence to support the claim that hidden domain variables are required to account for domain restriction in quantifier and noun phrases in general. Lastly, it is argued that positing hidden indexical expressions incurs two unmet constraints, namely participation in anaphoric relationships and the generation of a priori truths.