Concept
Presupposition
Overview
assumed context surrounding an utterance
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Philosophers who discussed Presupposition
Related ideas
- American Philosophical Association
- Anaphora (linguistics)
- Philosophy
- Negation
- Truth value
- Propositional logic
- Referent
- Linguistics
- Plato
- P. F. Strawson
- Semantics
- Bertrand Russell
- The Journal of Philosophy
- Steven Pinker
- Pragmatics
- Discourse
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Saul Kripke
- Definite description
- Semantic theory of truth
- Utterance
- Interlocutor (linguistics)
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.