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Full Idea
The most robust tests for presupposition are the projection tests. If s presupposes p, then Žs does too. If s1 presupposes p, then 'if s1 then s2' presupposes p. If s1 presupposes p, then 's1 and s2' presupposes p. If s presupposes p, then 's?' does too.
Gist of Idea
The best tests for presupposition are projecting it to negation, conditional, conjunction, questions
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 5.3.1.3)
Book Ref
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.120
A Reaction
[compressed] She also discusses quantifiers. In other words, the presupposition remains stable through various transformations of the underlying proposition.
18047 | A presupposition is what makes an utterance sound wrong if it is not assumed? [Magidor] |
18048 | A test for presupposition would be if it provoked 'hey wait a minute - I have no idea that....' [Magidor] |
18049 | The best tests for presupposition are projecting it to negation, conditional, conjunction, questions [Magidor] |
18054 | Why do certain words trigger presuppositions? [Magidor] |
18050 | If both s and not-s entail a sentence p, then p is a presupposition [Magidor] |