Rethinking Presuppositions : From Natural Ontology to Lexicon /

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Author / Creator:Fasciolo, Marco.
Imprint:Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2019.
©2019
Description:1 online resource (176 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13359819
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ISBN:1527541894
9781527541894
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 26, 2019).
Summary:This innovative volume proposes an overturning in the study of presuppositions. Beginning with a critical discussion of the most influential approaches, both in linguistics and philosophy, it shows that mainstream debate has not actually studied presuppositions, but rather the means to make presuppositions. In order to overcome this paradox, by relying on systematic and controllable linguistic tests, this text demonstrates that presuppositions trace a curve ranging from natural ontology to the lexicon. At the top of the curve are contents working as presuppositions for the whole human form of.
Other form:Print version: Fasciolo, Marco. Rethinking Presuppositions : From Natural Ontology to Lexicon. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, ©2019 9781527539563