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

    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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    Key Terms

    Context-independence(as used in quantum physics philosophy)
    The idea that a property's value should be the same no matter how or when you measure it, rather than depending on your measurement setup.
    Discourse position(location in ongoing communication)
    Where a sentence appears in a conversation or text—whether it's the first thing said, or comes after other sentences that set up context.
    Dynamic predicate logic(technical logical framework)
    A system for analyzing language that treats sentences as changing the conversational context as they're spoken, rather than just standing alone.
    Groenendijk and Stokhof(as the creators of partition semantics)
    Two Dutch logicians and philosophers who developed partition semantics as a way to understand how questions and information work in language.

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    compositionality(Philosophy of language; the passage treats idioms as candidate counterexamples because their meanings appear not to be so constructed)
    The property of natural language whereby the meaning of a complex expression is built from the meanings of its constituting parts

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