Name: The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Burton-Roberts, Noel
ISBN: 9780521101936

portada The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Noel Burton-Roberts

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

284

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.42 kg.

ISBN

052110193x

ISBN13

9780521101936

N° edición

Categorías

Lingüísticas
Lógica

The Limits to Debate: A Revised Theory of Semantic Presupposition (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics) (en Inglés)

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Exponents and critics of semantic presupposition have almost invariably based their discussion on the ('Standard') definition of presupposition implied by Frege and Strawson. In this study Noel Burton-Roberts argues convincingly against this definition, that leads it to a three-valued semantics. He presents a very simple semantic definition which is weaker, more general and leads to a semantics more easily interpreted as two-valued with gaps. The author shows that a wide range of intuitive facts that eluded the Standard definition follow directly from this ('Revised') definition itself: facts about the presuppositions of compound sentences and modal sentences, about presuppositional conflict and about differences in the logical status of simple sentences suffering from presupposition failure. The book includes a detailed argument that an ambiguity of natural language negation, generally assumed to be necessary to the defence of semantic presupposition, is neither possible nor necessary in a presuppositional semantics. Noel Burton-Roberts has made an authoritative contribution to a debate which has involved philosophers and linguists for many years. His command of the issues, his clarity of exposition and his theoretical insight may well serve to change the boundaries of that debate.