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Publication details [#899]

Atlas, Jay David. 1978. On presupposing. Mind 87 (347) : 396–411.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
ambiguity | generality | logical representation | negation | presupposition | proposition
Journal WWW
www3.oup.co.uk/mind/

Annotation

A. argues that negative presuppositional sentences are characterized by semantical non-specificity instead of ambiguity and that this non-specificity makes it impossible to identify the semantic representation of a sentence with a logical form.

Reviewed by

Hollings, Laurie. 1980. Presupposition and theories of meaning.