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    The semantic content of a sentence must lack temporal qualification, meaning it can change in truth-value over time.

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    • 1.A sentence contributes the same content regardless of whether it occurs as a proper part of a larger sentence.
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    • 2.A sentence such as 'in the past, Reagan was president' is true depending on whether the content of 'Reagan is president' is true at some past time.
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    • 3.If the content of 'Reagan is president' were temporally qualified, it could not be evaluated at an arbitrary past time by a temporal sentential operator.
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    • 1.Propositions can be temporally individuated such that 'Reagan is president' expresses distinct propositions at distinct times, each with permanent truth-values.
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    • 2.Temporally qualified propositions remain compositionally tractable if operators shift the time of evaluation rather than re-indexing the propositional content itself.
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    • 3.Kaplan's distinction between character and content shows that operators can target contextual parameters without requiring content to be evaluation-time-neutral.
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    • 1.Prior's tense logic treats temporal operators as primitive and propositions as having intrinsic tensed structure, making evaluation-relative content unnecessary.
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    • 2.If sentences express tensed propositions with built-in temporal orientation, 'in the past, Reagan was president' is true because the embedded proposition is itself past-directed, not because an atemporal content is checked at multiple times.
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    Propositions are also commonly treated as the meanings or, to use the more standard terminology, the semantic contents of sentences, and so are commonly taken to be central to semantics and the philosophy of language. However, there is room for doubt about whether propositions are the right sort of entity for the job (Lewis 1980). Here is why. Note that a sentence would appear to contribute the same content regardless of whether it occurs as a proper part of a larger sentence. So, a sentence suc
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