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Nerlich, G. 1965. Presupposition and entailment. American Philosophical Quarterly 2 : 33–42.
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English
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N. argues that the Strawsonian doctrine of presupposition oscillates between two quite distinct and incompatible positions (viz. describing presupposition as a necessary condition for a statement to have a truth value, or as a necessary condition of the speaker's making a statement), the first of which may be plausible but does not sustain the belief that a new logical relation has been discovered, and the second of which is false.

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