Linguistics & Language · Semantics & Pragmatics
A topic within Semantics & Pragmatics, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Linguistics & Language.
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Lauri Karttunen
Argues that whether a presupposition survives being embedded under negation, a conditional or a modal depends on the properties of the embedding predicate itself, not on the presupposition alone.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Robert Stalnaker
Argues that presupposition is a property of speakers and contexts rather than of sentences, defined as what a speaker takes to be common ground with an audience at the moment of speaking.