Course Reflections [Danielle Trzil]

B) The section that stretched my thinking the most was probably indirect speech, implicature, and names. Something I have not really thought of before is how I refer to things and assume those that I speak to know what I'm talking about. Not only did this stretch my thinking on how this is used, but the underlying information behind this. Alternate worlds that Kripke mentions is something I never really thought about explicitly before - it was just an underlying thing that was there but not thought about. When really diving into it, however, it became more clear how there is so much more to language and connected though and descriptions than I have every considered before, and that really impacts the way that I now think about when communicating with others. This helps avoid miscommunication, and is also effective when wanting to dive into theoretically madness and a cycle of "what ifs".