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On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account

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In this paper I provide a new account of linguistic presuppositions, on which they are ancillary speech acts defined by constitutive norms. After providing an initial intuitive characterization of the phenomenon, I present a normative speech act account of presupposition in parallel with Williamson's analogous account of assertion. I explain how it deals well with the problem of informative presuppositions, and how it relates to accounts for the Triggering and Projection Problems for presuppositions. I conclude with a brief discussion of the consequences of the proposal for the adequacy of Williamson's account of assertion.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-018-0027-3

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Filosofia del llenguatge, Actes de parla (Lingüística), Semàntica (Filosofia), Pressuposició (Lògica)

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Philosophy of language, Speech acts (Linguistics), Semantics (Philosophy), Presupposition (Logic)

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GARCÍA-CARPINTERO, Manuel. On the Nature of Presupposition: A Normative Speech Act Account. Erkenntnis. An International Journal of Scientific Philosophy. 2018. Vol. 1-47. ISSN 0165-0106. [consulted: 8 of October of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/123860

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