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    It is not the case that Indices for evaluating temporal expressions must take the form of a pair ⟨u, e⟩, where u is the time of utterance and e is the time of evaluation

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    • 1.Kaplan's own formal semantics for 'now' requires a character-content distinction, not a bare ⟨u,e⟩ index pair, making the pair insufficient.
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    • 2.A full treatment of context-dependent expressions requires at minimum a context parameter encoding agent, location, and world alongside time of utterance.
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    • 1.Predelli's work on 'deferred utterance' shows that the time of utterance and the context of use can come apart, undermining the assumption that u straightforwardly fixes the utterance anchor.
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    • 2.Cases like recorded speech and written texts demonstrate that 'now' can successfully refer to a time neither of production nor of evaluation, requiring richer indexical machinery than a two-coordinate index.
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    • 1.The word 'now' must always refer back to the original time of utterance even when 'now' lies in the scope of other temporal operators such as F
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    • 2.Correctly evaluating sentences containing 'now' under temporal operators requires keeping track of both the time of utterance and the time of evaluation separately
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