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    It is not the case that Two-dimensional semantics can handle situations where necessity and analyticity come apart

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    • 1.The analyticity of 'I am here now' presupposes that indexicals have stable semantic rules across contexts, but Kaplan's own framework shows that character, not content, is what generates this truth.
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    • 2.If analyticity is grounded in character-level truth (truth across all contexts of utterance), it is a metalinguistic fact about expression-types, not a modal fact about propositions, so no genuine metaphysical necessity-analyticity gap is revealed.
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    • 3.Two-dimensional semantics thereby conflates a formal artifact of indexical logic with a substantive philosophical distinction between analytic and necessary truths in the tradition of Kant and Kripke.
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    • 1.Chalmers' two-dimensional framework relies on the epistemic intension (what a speaker would judge true under idealized a priori reflection) tracking analyticity, but Williamson argues that there are no stable a priori-accessible intensions for most natural-kind terms.
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    • 2.If the primary intension is not recoverable through pure a priori reasoning—as Williamson's externalist cases suggest—the context dimension cannot reliably encode analyticity, undermining the claim that the framework handles necessity-analyticity divergence in general.
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    • 1.'I am here now' is analytically true (true in every linguistic context along the context dimension)
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    • 2.'I am here now' is contingently true (false in some possible worlds along the possible-worlds dimension)
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    • 3.Therefore, 'I am here now' is a contingent analytic truth — analytic without being necessary
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