Presuppositions, provisos, and probability

Theories of presupposition in the tradition associated with Karttunen, Stalnaker and Heim relate presupposition satisfaction to the content of conversational participants’ epistemic states, usually modeled as sets of worlds. However, converging evidence from recent work on modality and from other ar...

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Main Author: Daniel Lassiter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linguistic Society of America 2012-05-01
Series:Semantics and Pragmatics
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Online Access:http://semprag.org/article/view/1571