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Foundational Issues in Presupposition
Mandy Simons 1*
  1 Carnegie Mellon University
Copyright © Blackwell Publishing 2006

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Abstract
          1. The Phenomenon
          2. A Starting Place: The Stalnakerian View of Presupposition and the Common Ground
          3. Dynamic Semantics
          4. Reductionist ViewsWorks Cited

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?


Philosophy Compass 1/4 (2006): 357–372, 10.1111/j.1747-9991.2006.00028.x

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