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presupposition in linguistics
pree-sup-oh-ZI-shun in ling-GWIS-tiks
ˌpriːsʌpəˈzɪʃən ɪn lɪŋˈɡwɪstɪksListen
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presuppositioninlinguistics
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background assumption that a speaker takes for granted as already accepted in the context of utterance; 'The king of France is bald' presupposes there is a king of France; presuppositions survive negation and questioning, distinguishing them from entailments and implicatures; Frege, Strawson, and Stalnaker contributed key analyses; presuppositions can be exploited in discourse to smuggle contested claims into common ground
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