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    Challenges→Indexicality does not imply non-rigidity

    Indexicals like 'I' and 'now' carry essentially context-dependent modes of presentation that make their reference systematically shift with context, which is the hallmark of non-rigidity in any epistemically robust sense.

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    Context-dependent(describing whether comicality is a fixed property or varies by situation)
    Something that changes meaning or value depending on the situation or circumstances it's in, rather than always being the same.
    Epistemically robust(epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    Strong and reliable from the perspective of knowledge and what we can actually know or verify—not just theoretically possible but actually meaningful to our understanding.
    Non-rigidity(philosophy of language and logic)
    The quality of not always pointing to the same thing; something that can refer to different things in different situations.
    indexicals(Philosophy of language, semantics)
    Expressions whose reference depends on the context of utterance, such as 'I' or 'here'
    mode of presentation

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    (Fregean semantics)
    The way in which a name picks out or presents its referent; two names may share a referent while differing in their mode of presentation
    reference(Distinguished from intension in the context of possible worlds semantics)
    The actual-world referent of an expression; what the expression picks out in the actual world.

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