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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Some cases exhibit temporal relativity even when scope interactions cannot generate the observed pattern of truth-value shifts.
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    • 2.Context-shift better explains why speakers intuitively accept certain reinterpretations that pure scope mechanics cannot derive mechanically.
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    • 3.Scope theories struggle with cases where satisfaction conditions shift without syntactic ambiguity or quantifier repositioning available.
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    • 1.Scope ambiguities (quantifier and modal scope) naturally generate multiple satisfaction conditions without positing additional mental entities.
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    • 2.Context-shift theories multiply theoretical commitments without empirical evidence distinguishing their predictions from scope-based alternatives.
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    • 3.Compositional semantics explains temporal variance through standard logical binding, respecting principle of parsimony.
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