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Publication details [#5412]
Keenan, Edward Louis. 1971. Two kinds of presupposition in natural language. In Fillmore, Charles J. and D. Terence Langendoen, eds. Studies in linguistic semantics. Holt, Rinehart and Winston. pp. 44–52.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
K. draws a distinction between logical presupposition (defined as follows: a sentence S logically presupposes a sentence S' in case S logically implies S' and the negation of S, -S, also logically implies S'; i.e. the truth of S' is a necessary condition on the truth or falsity of S) and pragmatic presupposition (defined as follows: an utterance of a sentence pragmatically presupposes that its context is appropriate; i.e. contextual appropriateness conditions are pragmatic presuppositions).