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    Challenges→Propositions expressed by epistemic modal sentences can vary in truth-value depending on the context of assessment, not just the context of utterance.

    Apparent truth-value variation across contexts is fully explained by the standard Kaplanian framework of context-dependent content without invoking a separate index of assessment.

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    • 1.Kaplan's framework successfully explains indexicals (I, here, now) and demonstratives without additional machinery.
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    • 2.Apparent truth-value shifts often track speaker/audience differences resolvable by context-dependent content alone.
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    • 3.Multiplying assessment indices beyond context violates parsimony without clear explanatory gains.
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    • 1.Future contingents and truth-value gaps require assessment-relative evaluation beyond speaker-context determination.
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    • 2.Gradable adjectives (tall, tasty) show truth-value variation independent of context-fixed content assignments.
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    • 3.Relativism about knowledge and morality demonstrates that propositions themselves vary truth-value across standards.
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