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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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