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    A time index should be included in circumstances of evalu... — Carmelics
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    A time index should be included in circumstances of evaluation

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    • 1.Tenses are best modeled as operators
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    • 2.Operators operate on contents
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    • 3.If there are temporal operators, they can only affect truth-values if contents can have different truth-values with respect to different times
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    • 1.Tense operators are better analyzed as quantifiers over times rather than as shifters of a time index in circumstances of evaluation.
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    • 2.If tenses quantify over times explicitly represented in propositional content, temporal variation is captured without relativizing the circumstance itself.
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    • 3.Kaplan's system already separates context from circumstance, and propositions evaluated at world-only circumstances remain temporally stable eternal truths.
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    • 1.King, Soames, and others argue that natural language sentences express temporally complete, eternal propositions that are true or false simpliciter.
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    • 2.If propositions are eternal, the apparent context-dependence of tensed sentences is handled at the level of character or content, not by enriching circumstances with time indices.
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    On the semantic side, as Kaplan (1989) notes, friends of the idea that tenses are best modeled as operators have good reason to include a time index in circumstances of evaluation. After all, operators operate on contents, so if there are temporal operators, they will only be able to affect truth-values if those contents can have different truth-values with respect to different times.
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