Learning from presupposition

Mind and Language (forthcoming)
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Abstract

P. F. Strawson famously distinguishes what a speaker presupposes from what she asserts in uttering a sentence like “The present King of France is bald”. This paper defends a claim about presupposition's epistemic significance, namely that presupposition can provide a distinctive testimony‐based way for an audience to learn about the world.

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Dominic Alford-Duguid
University of Oxford

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