Presupposition
Consider the following famous example from Bertrand Russell.
The present king of France is bald.
According to Russell, (1) is false because it asserts the existence of the present kin...
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Entailment, Presupposition, and Implicature
Entailment, as used by philosophers, is a term of art that, unlike logical consequence, lacks a precise definition that is consistently adhered to by those ...
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Presupposing
The notions of "presupposing" and of contextual implication, which we shall compare and contrast in what follows, have come to play increasingly prominent roles in the philo...
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Presupposition