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    It is not the case that If the truth-conditional content of a sentence is always fully determined relative to a rich, occasion-specific context, then introducing circumstances as a second index is a theoretical posit that violates Occam's razor.

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    • 1.Context and circumstance serve distinct functions: context fixes content, while circumstances determine truth-value of that content.
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    • 2.Modal and counterfactual reasoning requires evaluating sentences across multiple possible worlds, which context alone cannot provide.
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    • 3.Occam's razor penalizes unmotivated posits, but circumstances solve genuine explanatory problems that context-only views leave unresolved.
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    • 1.Context already encodes speaker intention, temporal reference, and demonstrative content without additional formal machinery.
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    • 2.Circumstances as a separate index multiply entities unnecessarily; a single context parameter achieves all explanatory work.
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    • 3.Empirical semantic phenomena like indexicals and demonstratives can be fully explained by pragmatic context without formal possible worlds.
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