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    Challenges→A time index should be included in circumstances of evaluation

    If tenses quantify over times explicitly represented in propositional content, temporal variation is captured without relativizing the circumstance itself.

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    • 1.Explicit temporal quantification in propositions (e.g., 'at t1: snow is white') makes time an object of reference, not a parameter of evaluation.
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    • 2.Avoiding circumstance-relativization preserves objectivity: truth conditions depend on propositional content alone, not on shifting evaluation contexts.
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    • 3.This approach elegantly handles cross-temporal comparisons without multiplying metaphysical entities like 'circumstances' indexed to times.
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    • 1.Explicit quantification over times presupposes we can represent all temporal information propositionally—but indexicals ('now,' 'today') resist such capture.
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    • 2.Moving temporal parameters into propositional content doesn't eliminate context-dependence; it merely relocates it from circumstances to the semantic content itself.
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    • 3.The claim requires that tenses function as quantifiers, but natural language tenses appear to mark temporal relations, not to range over temporal domains.
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