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I would like to thank the organizers of the Third Symposium on Logic and Language (Révfülöp, Hungary, August 26–31, 1990), where this paper was presented first. László Kálmán deserves special mention here. Furthermore, I would like to thank David Beaver, Gennaro Chierchia, Jeroen Groenendijk, Herman Hendriks and Martin Stokhof, and two anonymous referees, for their helpful comments. The research for this paper was supported by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). This paper was revised while the author was working on the ESPRIT Basic Research Project 6852, Dynamic Interpretation of Natural Language.

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Dekker, P. Existential disclosure. Linguist Philos 16, 561–587 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985434

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