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    Dynamic semantics is better characterized as an extension or generalization of classical semantics rather than a rejection of it

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    • 1.Other alternatives to classical semantics reject core features such as the assignment of entities as meanings or the centrality of word-world relations
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    • 2.Dynamic semantics can employ modified versions of much of the same theoretical machinery as classical semantics
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    • 1.Dynamic semantics redefines meanings as context-change potentials rather than truth conditions, constituting a categorical shift in the fundamental explanandum of semantic theory.
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    • 2.Retaining theoretical machinery while abandoning truth-conditional content as the central semantic unit is a rejection of classical semantics, not a generalization of it.
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    • 1.Groenendijk and Stokhof's dynamic predicate logic revises compositionality so that the meaning of a sentence depends on its discourse position, violating classical context-independence.
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    • 2.A theory that abandons context-independence and static compositionality breaks constitutive commitments of classical semantics, not merely its peripheral assumptions.
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    The relationship between dynamic semantics and classical semantics is different than the relationship between the latter and the other alternatives to classical semantics that I’ve discussed. The other alternatives to classical semantics reject some core feature of classical semantics—for example, the assignments of entities as meanings, or the idea that meaning centrally involves word-world relations. By contrast, dynamic semantics can be thought of as a kind of extension or generalization of c
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