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Presupposition and Context Sensitivity
Author(s) -
Lepore Ernie,
Sennet Adam
Publication year - 2014
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.12068
Subject(s) - presupposition , context (archaeology) , sensitivity (control systems) , epistemology , criticism , psychology , cognitive science , linguistics , philosophy , history , political science , archaeology , electronic engineering , engineering , law
We argue there is a clash between the standard treatments of context sensitivity and presupposition triggering. We use this criticism to motivate a defense of an often‐discarded view about how to represent context sensitivity, according to which there are more lexically implicit items in logical form than has been appreciated.