Presupposition and presuppositional logic
Presupposition is a systematic discourse‐anchoring device in the semantics of natural language. Presuppositions are generated by the preconditions of predicates. Operational criteria are provided. Data show that two kinds of falsity must be distinguished, one that preserves and one that cancels presuppositions. This leads to a trivalent presuppositional logic. For predicate logic, this takes two forms: the basic‐natural logic of Chapter 3 and the Square of Opposition extended with a presuppositional component.
Keywords: discourse‐anchoring, presupposition, minimal and radical negation, negative and positive polarity items, trivalent logic
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