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Presuppositions: are silent assumptions, which are contained in utterances. These assumptions are suggested by the context or conventions. E.g. "All my children sleep" presupposes that I have children. (See A. von Stechow, "Schritte zur Satzsemantik", ww.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/~astechow/Aufsaetze/Schritte.pdf (26.06.2006) p. 80)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
Author
Concept
Summary/Quotes
Sources
Arnim von Stechow on Presuppositions - Dictionary of Arguments
80
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.
113
Presupposition/Stechow: a sentence presupposes all its logical consequences.
Sentence meaning: partial function.
Presupposition: set of situations - therefore propositions.
>Possible worlds, >Propositions, >Situations.
121
(Existence-) presupposition: = limiting the scope - dom(p) = = pre-area presupposition of p.
>Scope.
123
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._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals
indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate
the page number. The corresponding books
are indicated on the right hand side.
((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.A. von Stechow
I Arnim von Stechow Schritte zur Satzsemantik
www.sfs.uniï·"tuebingen.de/~astechow/Aufsaetze/Schritte.pdf (26.06.2006)