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    It is not the case that Dynamic semantics is better characterized as an extension or generalization of classical semantics rather than a rejection of it

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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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    • 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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