Contextualist accounts in the tradition of Travis and Recanati hold that pragmatic enrichment at the level of context is sufficiently powerful to handle temporal displacement without positing a separate circumstance of evaluation.

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Contextualist accounts(in philosophy of language and semantics): A philosophical approach that says the meaning or truth of a statement depends heavily on the specific situation or context in which it's used, rather than having a fixed meaning on its own.
Pragmatic enrichment(in philosophy of language): The process where listeners add extra meaning to what someone says based on the context and what seems practical or reasonable, going beyond just the literal words spoken.
Recanati(as a key figure in contextualism): François Recanati, a French philosopher who studies how words and context interact to create meaning, and how speakers convey thoughts beyond just the literal words they use.
Temporal displacement(in semantics and philosophy of language): Situations where we talk about events at different times—like when a sentence spoken now refers to something that happened in the past or will happen in the future.

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