Semantic concept of existential presupposition

• Authors: Jiří Raclavský
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Strawson’s work seems to contain both pragmatic and semantic concepts of presupposition. The former concept has largely been studied by many philosophers and linguists, while the latter has not been properly investigated (van Fraassen being an exception). The present author explicates the semantic concept of existential presupposition in relation to deriving existential statements and distinguishing their de dicto/de re variants (in the rather generalized sense following Tichý).

Keywords

EN

existential presupposition; existential import; commitment; de dicto and de re

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 249-261

Dates

published

2011-09-01

online

2011-09-22

Contributors

author

Jiří Raclavský

• Masaryk University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-011-0026-4