Publications

Publication details [#3441]

Fraassen, Bas C. Van. 1968. Presupposition, implication, and self-reference. The Journal of Philosophy 65 (5) : 136–152.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

implication | liar's paradox | presupposition | self-reference | truthfulness

Annotation

An attempt to explicate the semantic relation of presupposition among sentences, the distinction between presupposition and implication, and the relation between presupposition and truth. Then the distinctions made are used in the discussion of certain paradoxes of self-reference (e.g. the paradox of the liar).

Reviewed by

Post, John Frederic. 1979. Presupposition, bivalence, and the possible liar.

Reprints

Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck. 1973. In Petöfi, Janos S. and Dorothea Franck, eds. Präsuppositionen in Philosophie und Linguistik. Athenäum Verlag. pp. 97–116.