“Jane runs” appears on its own in an extensional position (as a whole sentence), in “Necessarily Jane runs” in an intensional position, and “John believes that Jane runs” in a hyperintensional position. (Nolan, Hyperintensional Metaphysics)
Seems that we need a type of Individuals, , for the indexical utterings, and a type of Worlds, , for variation. Or we might have a temporal logic.
But why not have depending on , so that what’s necessary for one speaker is in terms of their worlds: . Maybe this arises with the theories as contexts idea. Then possible worlds are context extensions. Contexts indexed by . There should be ways to translate between theories. Find a span,etc.
‘I have always X-ed’, uttered by at , has this dependent time in the sense that the start of the interval is i-dependent (or is it, from the start of the world,…?).
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