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    Challenges→Dynamic semantics is better characterized as an extension or generalization of classical semantics rather than a rejection of it

    Retaining theoretical machinery while abandoning truth-conditional content as the central semantic unit is a rejection of classical semantics, not a generalization of it.

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    • 1.Classical semantics defines truth-conditions as the fundamental unit explaining meaning; removing this core principle constitutes rejection, not extension.
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    • 2.Generalizations preserve central commitments while extending scope; abandoning truth-conditions abandons the theory's essential explanatory target.
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    • 3.Non-truth-conditional frameworks (use-theory, expressivist) solve different problems than classical semantics; they're alternative frameworks, not developments of it.
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    • 1.Generalizations can retain formal machinery while reconceptualizing its foundation; this resembles extensions in physics that preserve equations but reinterpret them.
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    • 2.If truth-conditions prove insufficient for some semantic phenomena, frameworks extending the machinery to handle non-truth-conditional content generalize classical theory.
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    • 3.The distinction between 'rejection' and 'generalization' depends on explanatory continuity and unity, not whether one element is abandoned; both can apply here.
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