 where ‘that\(_{n}\)’ refers to the nth element of a sorites series for ‘heap’. If ‘heap’ is indexical, as Soames proposes, there is no room to suppose that its extension shifts from conjunct to conjunct in Stanley’s formulation. Defending the contextualist, Raffman (2005) responds by denying that vague terms are indexicals. She contends that in verb phrase ellipsis, vague terms should be understood on the model of ‘That elephant is big, and so is that flea’. Here the extension of ‘big’ varies between the two conjuncts despite the ellipsis (Ludlow 1989). 