Ideas from 'Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics' by David J.Chalmers [2006], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Two-Dimensional Semantics' (ed/tr Garcia-Carpentero/Macia) [OUP 2006,0-19-927202-6]].

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19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 10. Two-Dimensional Semantics
'Water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, with different intensions in different worlds
                        Full Idea: For Chalmers, 'water' is two-dimensionally inconstant, in that it has different secondary intensions relative to different worlds of utterance.
                        From: report of David J.Chalmers (Foundations of Two-Dimensional Semantics [2006]) by Theodore Sider - Four Dimensionalism 7.2
                        A reaction: In this way 'water' is regarded as being like an indexical (such as 'I'), which has a fixed meaning component, and a second component which varies with different utterances. Maybe.