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    It is not the case that A speaker can refer to the day of utterance with 'today' without having an adequate purely qualitative conception of what day it is

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    • 1.Rip Van Winkle, upon waking on October 20, 1823, says 'Today is October 20, 1803' — he is wrong about the date but is still referring to October 20, 1823 with his use of 'today'
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    • 2.The reference of 'today' is determined by when the speaker is located, not by the sense or conception the speaker associates with the word
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    • 3.It suffices to be located on a given day and know the general rule governing uses of 'today' in order to refer to that day
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