Contextualism without Incompleteness
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contextualism gets started when it is observed that utterances of the same nonindexical sentence occurring in different contexts may get different evaluations as to truth or falsity. let us cite some well-known examples, representative of some varieties of sentences for which the above-mentioned observation holds (albeit by no means exhaustive of those varieties and not meant to suggest a classification):
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