The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition
Noël Burton-Roberts · 2009
Preface Introduction Part I. The Prevailing Concept of Semantic Presupposition: 1. The Standard Logical Definition of Presupposition 2. Further aspects of the prevailing concept Part II. The Distinction between a Trivalent Logic and a Two-Valued Logic with Gaps: 3. Developing the distinction 4. Classical validity and the distinction 5. Standard presupposition and the distinction Part III. Presupposition in a Two-Valued Logic with Gaps 6. The base definition and its projective implications 7. Generalised presupposition 8. Projective properties of generalised presupposition 9. Revised presupposition and the logical status of simple sentences 10. The pragmatics of 'presupposition cancellation' Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index.