Logic & Language
Foundational Issues in Presupposition
By , Carnegie Mellon University (May 2006)
Section: Logic & Language
Subject: Philosophy.
People: Lewis, David .
Abstract
This essay provides a brief introduction to the topic of presupposition, and then discuses three major approaches to this phenomenon, focusing on the answers which each approach gives to two foundational questions: What is presupposition? And how, or why, does it arise?
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00028.x
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