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    Temporal operators like 'one hundred years ago' shift the... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The phrase 'one hundred years ago' shifts the context of utterance for expressions within its scope

    Temporal operators like 'one hundred years ago' shift the circumstance of evaluation, not the context, leaving indexical content anchored to the actual utterance time.

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    • 1.Indexicals like 'I' and 'now' retain their referent across temporal operators, suggesting context remains fixed while circumstances shift.
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    • 2.Temporal operators function like modal operators: they resituate truth-conditions without reassigning the speaker or utterance moment.
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    • 3.The speaker's identity and utterance time are constitutive of what is said, not subject to temporal displacement like factual claims.
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    • 1.Temporal operators arguably do shift context by establishing a new evaluation time that becomes operative for all subsequent indexicals.
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    • 2.If 'I said one hundred years ago that I was tired,' the indexical 'I' plausibly refers to my past self-stage, suggesting context-shift.
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    • 3.The distinction between circumstance and context becomes unstable when temporal operators license different temporal anchors for content.
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