Foundational Issues in Presupposition

Mandy Simons

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Abstract This essay provides a brief introduction to the topic of presupposition, and then discuses three major approaches to this phenomenon, focusing on the answers which each approach gives to two foundational questions: What is presupposition? And how, or why, does it arise?

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