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Full Idea
We can ask why a range of lexical items (e.g. 'stop' or 'know') trigger the presuppositions they do.
Gist of Idea
Why do certain words trigger presuppositions?
Source
Ofra Magidor (Category Mistakes [2013], 5.3.2)
Book Ref
Magidor,Ofra: 'Category Mistakes' [OUP 2013], p.129
A Reaction
I'm not sure whether we'll get an answer, but I would approach the question by thinking about mental files.
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] |