Learning from presupposition
P. F. Strawson famously distinguishes what a speaker presupposes from what she asserts in uttering a sentence like “The present King of France is bald”. This paper defends a claim about presupposition's epistemic significance, namely that presupposition can provide a distinctive testimony‐based way for an audience to learn about the world.
Authors
- Dominic Alford‐Duguid (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9213-4369)
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Mind & Language
- Published
- 2025-03-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12549
- Primary Topic
- Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Leverhulme Trust