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Presupposition and Entailment

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A study of the logical relations that hold between sentences and the propositions they convey — entailment, presupposition, and their diagnostic tests — with attention to presupposition triggers, the projection problem, and the boundary between semantic and pragmatic inference.

Inhaltsübersicht

  • Entailment and Logical Relations in Natural Language
  • Presupposition: Triggers and Properties
  • The Projection Problem and Presupposition in Complex Sentences
  • Distinguishing Presupposition from Implicature and Assertion
Diagram illustrating the logical relation of entailment between two propositions
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