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Presuppositions and Pronouns - Nijmegen Centre for Semantics

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90 <strong>Presuppositions</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pronouns</strong><br />

e. c[ -7 -> "'] \f\ = c - (c[ 0; this will<br />

always be a subset of c. The notion of local context, thus characterized, is at<br />

the heart of the satisfaction theory's underst<strong>and</strong>ing of presupposition, <strong>and</strong><br />

will playa a central role in the following.<br />

We now extend our object language with a syntactic device <strong>for</strong><br />

representing presuppositions that we have been using already: if

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