The Epistemics of Presupposition Projection


Συγγραφέας: Jan van Eijck


Jan Van Eijck: The Epistemics of Presupposition Projection (pdf, 8 pages)
We carry out (formalize) the Karttunen-Stalnaker pragmatic account of presupposition projection within a state-of-the art version of dynamic epistemic logic. It turns out that the basic projection facts can all be derived from a Gricean maxim ‘be informative’. This sheds light on a recent controversy on the appropriateness of dynamic semantics as a tool for analysing presupposition.