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Maximize Presupposition and Gricean reasoning.

Recent semantic research has made increasing use of a principle, Maximize Presupposition, which requires that under certain circumstances the strongest possible presupposition be marked. This principle is generally taken to be irreducible to standard Gricean reasoning because the forms that are in c...

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Published in:Natural Language Semantics Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 391 - 430
Main Author: Schlenker, Philippe
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2012
Subjects:
Presupposition (Logic)
Fallibility
Pragmatics
Pronouns
Transitivity (Grammar)
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