Lexicon of Arguments

 

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Presupposition/Strawson: also for the falsity of "all my children are sleeping" the existence is a prerequisite.
>Presuppositions/Strawson, >Existence, >Non-existence.
Syllogisms/StrawsonVsAristoteles: the presupposition does not apply to the predicate term.
>Syllogisms, >Predicates.
Sentence meaning/Strawson: then no longer set of possible worlds but partial function of possible world in truth values - because it should be possible that there is no truth value at all.
>Truth values, >Truth value gap, >Sentence meaning.
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Presupposition/Stechow: a sentence presupposes all its logical consequences.
Sentence meaning: partial function.
Presupposition: set of situations - therefore propositions.
>Possible worlds, >Propositions, >Situations.
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(Existence-) presupposition: = limiting the scope - dom(p) = = pre-area presupposition of p.
>Scope.
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Presupposition/Stechow: the presupposition states that the evaluation situation must be in the field of argument proposition (i.e. meaning).
A presupposition must be a meaning, not a truth value.

Original place in the literature/Frege: Kepler died in misery: assumes that the name means something.
>Thoughts/Frege.
But the presupposition is not part of the thought (proposition), which is expressed by the sentence.
>Designation, >Reference.