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Circumstance sentences are sentences which may be understood only in the context of the circumstances of utterance. In the specific sense of the term I have in mind Quine’s occasion sentences and standing sentences — i.e. sentences, whose correct or incorrect application is strictly determined by the occasion of their utterance or an occasion preceding the utterance within a tolerable time interval — are not circumstance sentences.
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Schnelle, H. (1979). Circumstance Sentences. In: Margalit, A. (eds) Meaning and Use. Synthese Language Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4104-4_8
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