The observed temporal relativity of the description's satisfaction conditions is fully explained by scope interaction, making context-shift an unnecessary and theoretically costly posit.

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Context-shift(a competing explanation that the statement argues against as unnecessary): The idea that the same words might refer to different things or have different meanings when used in different situations or conversations.
Satisfaction conditions(what Williamson argues is indeterminate in borderline cases): The specific requirements or criteria that must be met for something to count as true or for an object to belong to a category.
Scope interaction(as a potential explanation for why descriptions seem to change meaning in different contexts): A grammatical phenomenon where the order and nesting of different parts of a sentence affects its meaning, especially when multiple terms could be interpreted in different ways.
Temporal relativity(describing how the meaning of statements can vary across different moments in time): The idea that something's properties or truth-value might change depending on what time period you're talking about.
posit(as used in logic and metaphysics): An assumption or claim that someone puts forward as true in order to build an argument, even if they haven't fully proven it yet.
theoretically costly(describing how serious Wollheim's objection is): A significant problem or weakness in a theory that makes it less convincing or valuable, rather than just a minor limitation.

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