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This paper has benefited from the criticism of Elizabet Engdahl, David Lewis, Barbara Hall Partee, Anthony Ungar and the referee. It is based in part on material in the author's dissertation, written under the direction of Kit Fine.

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Kuhn, S. The pragmatics of tense. Synthese 40, 231–263 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00485679

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