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Presupposition

In linguistics and philosophy, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance, whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. An example is the question Have you talked to Hans? which presupposes Hans exists.

Logical construct, Projection of presuppositions & Presupposition triggers

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Negation of a sentence containing a presupposition

Projection of presuppositions

Presupposition triggers

Accommodation of presuppositions

Presupposition in critical discourse analysis

Logical construct

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Presupposition

Nodes48
Edges47
Triples115
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.041667
Components1

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Presupposition

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related to Factive verbs · 19
Presupposition → Africa, British Intelligence, Bush, But, Dracula, Frankenstein, George, He, In Western, It, John, John's, Martha, On, Over, Plato, Saddam Hussein, Steven Pinker, There
related to Accommodation of presuppositions · 16
Presupposition → An, Anaphora, But, For, Formulation, In, John, New York, Projection Problem, Remarks, Saul Kripke, Several, Sometimes, This, We, What
related to Further reading · 16
Presupposition → Accommodation, Beaver, Benthem, David, Elsevier, Henk Zeevat, In, In Ramchand, Language, Linguistic Interfaces, Logic, Meulen, Oxford University Press, Reiss, The Handbook, The Oxford Handbook
related to Questions · 12
Presupposition → Australia, Either, England, Is, Is Newcastle, MIT, Newcastle, Questions, Someone, There, WH-questions, Who
related to External links · 8
Presupposition → Bart, Edward, Geurts, In Zalta, ISSN, OCLC, Philosophy, Stanford Encyclopedia
related to Presupposition in critical discourse analysis · 8
Presupposition → CDA, Critical, Dijk, It, One, Teun, Through, With
related to Temporal clauses · 8
Presupposition → Before Strawson, Chomsky, Churchill, Frege, Since Churchill, Strawson, The, While Chomsky
related to Definite descriptions · 6
Presupposition → Definite, France, In, John, Ohio, The
related to Presupposition triggers · 6
Presupposition → As, Lauri Karttunen, Levinson's, Pragmatics, Stephen, The
related to Logical construct · 4
Presupposition → Belnap, Every, Then, To

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sentence john wife presuppositions triggers example utterance linguistics one question information accommodation fact truth true addressee sentences phrase speech new

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Presuppositionis aimplicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance0.90text
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsSometimes0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsFor0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsIn0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsThis0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsWe0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsAnaphora0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsRemarks0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsFormulation0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsProjection Problem0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsSaul Kripke0.60section
Presuppositionrelated to Accommodation of presuppositionsAn0.60section

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