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Introduction: Presuppositions Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology

An Information Packaging Approach to Presuppositions and Conventional Implicatures

Presupposition Failure and the Assertive Enterprise

Accommodating Presuppositions

Multivalent Semantics for Vagueness and Presupposition

Scalar Implicatures Versus Presuppositions: The View from Acquisition

Selection Restrictions as Ultimate Presuppositions of Natural Ontology

On Presuppositional Implicatures

A Presuppositional Account of Causal and Temporal Interpretations of and

When “All the Five Circles” are Four: New Exercises in Domain Restriction

Using Triggers Without Projecting Presuppositions

Presuppositions as Anaphoric Duality Enablers

Presupposition Projection and Conditionalization

Introduction: The Philosophy of Information

Is There a Philosophy of Information?

Erratum to: Is There a Philosophy of Information?

Information Channels and Biomarkers of Disease

The Method of Levels of Abstraction in Pluralism and Governance of Dialogical Interaction

What Can We Know of Computational Information? Measuring, Quantity, and Quality at Work in Programmable Artifacts

Just Information Warfare

Are Information or Data Patterns Correlated with Consciousness?

An Informational Perspective on Agency Causation

The Semantics of Untrustworthiness

Introduction: Social Ontology, Culture and Institutions

Deacon’s Challenge: From Calls to Words

The Organism-Centered Approach to Cultural Evolution

Explaining Universal Social Institutions: A Game-Theoretic Approach

How Institutions Work in Shared Intentionality and ‘We-Mode’ Social Cognition

Do Rights Exist by Convention or by Nature?

How Social Institutions Can Imitate Nature

Presupposition Failure and the Assertive Enterprise

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Bezuidenhout, Anne
Copyright Year	2014
Abstract	I outline a discourse-based account of presuppositions that relies on insights from the writings of Peter Strawson, as well as on insights from more recent work by Robert Stalnaker and Barbara Abbott. One of the key elements of my account is the idea that presuppositions are “assertorically inert”, in the sense that they are background propositions, rather than being part of the “at issue” or asserted content. Strawson is often assumed to have defended the view that the falsity of a presupposition leads to catastrophe, in the sense that a false presupposition “wrecks the assertive enterprise”. I argue that the discourse-based account in terms of assertoric inertia can explain how cases of presupposition failure can sometimes be non-catastrophic; there are cases in which the assertive enterprise operates smoothly, despite presupposition failure. The chief problem facing this line of argument is to account for cases in which presupposition failure is catastrophic. If presuppositions are assertorically inert, then how can their falsity ever wreck the assertive enterprise? I offer a principled account that delineates the circumstances in which false presuppositions are, and those in which they are not, catastrophic.
Starting Page	23
Ending Page	35
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01677411
Journal	Topoi
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15728749
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2014-11-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Presupposition failure Assertoric inertia Backgrounded propositions Assertion Philosophy Philosophy of Science Philosophy of Technology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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Presupposition Projection and Conditionalization

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Presuppositions as Anaphoric Duality Enablers

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