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    Challenges→Even if Fitch's conjunction is an indexical expression, there is no reason to think it is non-rigid

    A term that picks out different properties relative to different contexts of evaluation satisfies the standard semantic criterion for non-rigidity.

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    • 1.Kripke's standard criterion defines non-rigid designators as terms varying reference across possible worlds based on evaluation context.
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    • 2.Natural language terms like 'actual' and 'that person' demonstrably pick out different properties depending on context of use.
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    • 3.A semantic criterion gains explanatory power by capturing this context-sensitivity rather than treating all terms uniformly.
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    • 1.Context-sensitivity (picking different properties) may reflect pragmatics or reference-fixing, not semantic non-rigidity per se.
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    • 2.Some rigid designators can appear context-sensitive at surface level while maintaining invariant reference at the semantic level.
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    • 3.The criterion conflates picking out *different properties* with picking out *different referents*, which are distinct phenomena.
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