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    It is not the case that Dynamic semantics reverses the explanatory priorities of classical static semantic theories

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    • 1.Stalnaker's context-change framework (1978) derives update potentials from static truth conditions, showing dynamics can be grounded in, not prior to, propositions.
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    • 2.If context change potentials are systematically definable from truth-conditional content, dynamic semantics reduces to an extension of static theory, not a reversal of its priorities.
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    • 1.Heim's file change semantics, often cited as paradigmatically dynamic, was explicitly developed to capture anaphora facts that Montague-style static semantics could not, targeting descriptive gaps rather than foundational explanatory priority.
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    • 2.Targeting a descriptive gap in a rival framework is not equivalent to reversing that framework's explanatory order, since both static and dynamic approaches may still treat truth conditions as the ultimate semantic target.
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    • 1.Static semantic theories primarily aim to pair sentences with propositions that determine truth conditions
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    • 2.Dynamic semantic theories instead assign sentences 'context change potentials' as their semantic values
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    • 3.Context change potentials are instructions for updating the context or discourse, not truth-conditional propositions
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