  Similarly, according to some descriptivist theories of indexicals, every indexical, in every context, has a purely qualitative descriptive content. This content determines the indexical’s referent with respect to the world of the context (and any other world). A single indexical can have different descriptive contents in different contexts, and so can have different referents in different contexts. The descriptive content expressed by an indexical in a context is determined by the thoughts and intentions of the agent/speaker of the context. For example, when John utters ‘he’, he may mean the man who is \(F\), where the property of being a man and \(F\) is a purely qualitative property that suffices to determine a particular man independently of any context. The object determined by this descriptive content is the object to which ‘he’ refers, with respect to John’s context. If John utters ‘He is making a mess’, then the proposition that John believes and asserts is the proposition that the man who is \(F\) is making a mess.