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    Frege's context principle holds that the semantic value of a sentence is determined compositionally from its parts evaluated at a time, making tenseless present-tense truth unavoidable.

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    Key Terms

    Compositional(describing how meaning works)
    The idea that the meaning of a whole phrase or sentence is built up from the meanings of its individual parts.
    Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy)
    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
    Present-tense truth(as used in logic and philosophy of language)
    A statement about what is true right now, in the current moment, rather than about something that happened in the past.
    Tenseless(as contrasted with present-tense descriptions)
    Language that doesn't indicate whether something is happening now, in the past, or in the future—it just describes something as being true without a specific time.

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    context principle(Frege's methodological principle invoked to reframe how numbers can be epistemically accessible)
    Words have meaning only in the context of a proposition, not in isolation
    semantic value(A term lacking semantic value renders sentences containing it proposition-less)
    The contribution a term makes to the proposition expressed by a sentence containing it; absent when the term fails to refer to any real property or kind

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