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160 Presuppositions and Pronouns
verb believe are determined, inter alia, by the presupposition it induces; in §
5.7 the same will be seen to hold for want, too.
If a speaker employs an expression or construction that triggers a
presupposition %, X, he indicates that he takes % X to to be given in in the context in in
which it occurs -— i.e. X % must be given in one of the DRSs that are accessible
to %'s X's home DRS. But meanwhile the notion of context has become an
ambiguous one: there is a narrow and a wide notion of context, defined by
strict and weak accessibility, respectively. However, there are a priori
grounds to expect that it is the wider notion of context which is relevant in
this connection. In an important sense, everything that is contained in a DRS