Minimalists like Cappelen and Lepore argue that the proposition expressed by an utterance is determined by sentence meaning plus only a minimal set of context-dependent elements like indexicals.
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proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.
sentence meaning(Distinguished from speaker meaning in the context of textual interpretation)
The meaning encoded in a sentence independent of the specific communicative intention of the speaker or author.
utterance(Contrast drawn in discussing the referent of demonstrative 'that')
A concrete event (an utterance-token), as opposed to an abstract utterance-type.