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    Challenges→Sentences (17) and (18) do not differ in meaning

    Sentences differing in primary intension differ in one semantically relevant dimension of meaning, undermining the claim that (17) and (18) are meaning-identical.

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    • 1.Primary intension captures how speakers determine reference in actual contexts, making it semantically relevant to understanding what words mean.
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    • 2.Two sentences can have identical truth conditions yet differ in cognitive significance, which primary intension explains and meaning-identity ignores.
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    • 3.If sentences differ in primary intension, speakers using them make different epistemic claims about how to identify their referents.
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    • 1.Meaning-identity requires only that sentences have identical truth conditions across all possible worlds, not identical psychological determination procedures.
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    • 2.Primary intension conflates meaning with speaker competence and context-sensitivity; secondary intension captures the genuine semantic content.
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    • 3.Two sentences can differ in primary intension yet express the same proposition speakers communicate, making the difference pragmatically, not semantically relevant.
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