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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Context-change potentials still require truth conditions to be defined; they are derivative rather than fundamental explanandum.
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    • 2.Redefining semantics as context-change conflates linguistic meaning with communicative use, obscuring the core semantic question.
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    • 3.Formal accounts of context-change require extensional truth conditions as their foundation; the shift is notational, not categorical.
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    • 1.Natural language demonstratives and pronouns update discourse context in ways truth conditions alone cannot capture or explain.
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    • 2.Semantic competence involves predicting how utterances modify shared information states, not just evaluating static truth values.
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    • 3.Dynamic semantics unifies pragmatics and semantics by treating meaning as what speakers do to the conversational record.
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