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The perspective‐sensitivity of presuppositions
Author(s) -
Abrusán Márta
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/mila.12359
Subject(s) - presupposition , perspective (graphical) , salient , emotive , epistemology , connection (principal bundle) , projection (relational algebra) , simple (philosophy) , psychology , philosophy , mathematics , computer science , algorithm , geometry , artificial intelligence
Presuppositions are perspective‐sensitive: They may be evaluated with respect to the beliefs of a salient protagonist. This happens not only in well‐known cases of perspective shift such as free indirect discourse , but also when the perspective shift is less obvious, but still present, such as in examples of so‐called protagonist projection . In this paper, I show that this simple observation explains many puzzling facts noted in connection with presuppositions over the last 50 years, concerning, for example, emotive and cognitive factives, temporal clauses, and reason clauses.