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Introduction • As noted by (inter al.) Stalnaker (1974), in some cases pps can be informative: a pp φ is informative when (the speaker believes that) φ is not believed by the addressee. • Problem: does the novelty of informative pps conflict with their pre-supposed status? 4
Introduction • Problem: does the novelty of informative pps conflict with their pre-supposed status? • This talk: 1. pps are not necessarily ‘taken for granted’ by the speaker. ☞ This is by far the most frequent situation, but ⇒ this is a condition on the use of a pp. 2. A pp is a proposition φ that the speaker presents as true for her before she uses the sentence that conveys φ. 5
Page 1 and 2: Pre-supposing? Jacques Jayez ENS-LS
Page 3: Introduction • Different theories
Page 7 and 8: Informativity of a pp • Notation
Page 9 and 10: Informativity and common ground •
Page 11 and 12: Informativity and common ground •
Page 13 and 14: Presuppositions and Heimian semanti
Page 19 and 20: Informative pps and ∂ • Def. of
Page 21 and 22: • admittance ⇒ acceptance ‘Lo
Page 23 and 24: ‘Local’ pps and ∂ • Beaver
Page 25 and 26: ‘Local’ pps and ∂ • Beaver
Page 27 and 28: Consequences and options • Forms
Page 29 and 30: • Local projection Consequences a
Page 31 and 32: Pre-supposing • ψ pp φ = at the
Page 33 and 34: Pre-supposing • If ψ holds at w
Page 35 and 36: Pre-supposing • General strategy:
Page 37 and 38: Partiality • (12) Partiality w |=
Page 39 and 40: Partiality • (15) State updates 1
Page 41 and 42: Pre-supposing • The idea: the spe
Page 43 and 44: Pre-supposing: the definition • (
Page 45 and 46: • Df of pre-supposing Pre-supposi
Page 47 and 48: • Inferences = pps Pre-suppositio
Page 49 and 50: Communicated pps • What is commun
Page 51 and 52: Communicated pps • What is commun
Page 53 and 54: Communicated pps • (20) x communi
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• Refutation again Assertions, pp
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Assertions, pps and CIs • The loi
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Assertions, pps and CIs • Detacha
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• Pps are sometimes ‘detachable
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Assertions, pps and CIs • Suspend
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Communicated pps • Consequence: t
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Communicated pps • Temporal epist
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• Temporal updates Communicated p
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• pp update Communicated pps •
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• Assertive updates Communicated
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Summary • Assertion that φ by x:
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References Beaver, David I. 1995. P
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van der Sandt, Rob & Geurts, Bart.
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