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    It is not the case that Sentences with genuinely distinct truth conditions across contexts—e.g., 'The King of France is not bald' being true when there is no King versus false—cannot be unified under a single sense-general proposition without violating compositionality.

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    • 1.Presupposition failure (non-reference) can be treated uniformly as truth-value gaps rather than variable truth conditions across contexts.
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    • 2.Compositionality constrains how meanings combine, not how propositions vary contextually—context-sensitivity is orthogonal to compositional structure.
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    • 3.Dynamic semantics can assign the same propositional content different truth values by updating context without violating compositional principles.
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    • 1.Compositionality requires that a sentence's truth value depends only on constituent meanings plus structure, not on external existence facts.
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    • 2.If 'The King of France is not bald' flips truth value based on whether the referent exists, the sentence expresses different propositions across contexts.
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    • 3.A single sense-general proposition must preserve truth conditions; variable truth conditions indicate multiple distinct propositions are expressed.
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