This covert relationality conflicts with Frege's compositionality principle: the semantic value of 'Socrates is pale' should not depend on which temporal slice is contextually salient.

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Compositionality principle(the logical rule creating tension in Frege's theory): The idea that the meaning of a whole sentence is built up from the meanings of its individual words and how they fit together.
Contextually salient(as describing which stage of an object we're paying attention to): Standing out as particularly important or relevant given the current situation or conversation we're having.
Frege(as a major historical figure in philosophy): Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) was a German logician and philosopher who founded modern logic and did groundbreaking work on how language relates to meaning and existence.
covert relationality(describing the problem that conflicts with Frege's principle): A hidden or non-obvious way that something depends on its relationship to something else, rather than standing on its own.
semantic value(A term lacking semantic value renders sentences containing it proposition-less): The contribution a term makes to the proposition expressed by a sentence containing it; absent when the term fails to refer to any real property or kind
temporal slice(referring to different points in time that might affect meaning): A moment or period of time considered as a separate piece—like taking a snapshot of how something is at one instant.

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