Sentence examples for both presupposition from inspiring English sources

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Appealing to a so-called principle of sociality or sociability (conceived as both presupposition and requirement), he sought to identify the most general or minimal, and thus most widely acceptable, rights and laws of human association.

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If presuppositions behave similarly to anaphoric pronouns, it is clear why that should be so: in both cases, the presupposition is bound sentence-internally, just like the neuter pronoun is bound.

For instance, Stalnaker (1972, 1973, 1974), Lewis (1979, 1980), Thomason (1990) and others have developed models of the kinematics of conversations aimed at understanding the role of quantification, presupposition (both semantic and pragmatic), anaphora, deixis, and vagueness in discourse.

The solution to this puzzle lies in the fact that eternalism and annihilationism both share the presupposition that there is an 'I' whose existence might either extend beyond death or terminate at death.

given that the guests did not already know that the pool would be closed, and given that the guests were able to compute the presupposition (both taken for granted by the concierge).

On this view it is normally both, contrary to the presupposition that moral judgments are essentially beliefs.

While both are compatible with presupposition (A), neither of these positions provides a satisfactory understanding of posthumous harm or wrong.

Following the definitions through, it turns out that, once again, the original sentence carries both a non-conditionalized presupposition, that there is a king, and the conditionalized presupposition that if the king is angry, then there is a knave.

Both stances share the presupposition, which is in no way self-evident, that a defense of one's own way of life excludes ethical universalism.

Both models build on the presupposition that HCPs endeavor to act in an ethically responsible manner in their professional lives (Kälvemark et al. 2004).

A halfway house, suggested for example by Karttunen (1973) and Soames (1982), is to define a notion of utterance presupposition, thus involving both a specific form that is uttered, and a speaker who utters it.

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