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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.Compositionality concerns meaning from parts; context-sensitivity in truth-value doesn't require compositional violation if meaning is constant.
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    • 2.Temporal indexicals like 'is pale' legitimately incorporate temporal reference into their semantic content without betraying compositionality.
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    • 3.The claim conflates semantic content (which can include temporal parameters) with truth-value variation across contexts (which is expected).
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    • 1.Compositionality requires that sentence meaning depends only on component meanings and syntactic structure, not on external context.
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    • 2.If 'Socrates is pale' varies in truth-value across temporal slices, then its semantic value depends on which slice context selects.
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    • 3.Covert relationality to temporal slices is precisely this kind of context-dependent semantic variation that violates compositionality.
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