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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
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entailment or presupposition?
i. Mary has three children
ii. Mary has exactly three children
What are the above sentences cases of: entailment or presupposition? Please explain thank you
ii. Mary has exactly three children
What are the above sentences cases of: entailment or presupposition? Please explain thank you
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Entailment: Sentence ii entails sentence i because if ii is true, i must be true, and if i is false, ii must be false. Presupposition: The person named Mary exists. htm CJ
- Entailment: Sentence ii entails sentence i because if ii is true, i must be true, and if i is false, ii must be false.
- Presupposition: The person named Mary exists.
- htm CJ
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Entailment:
Sentence ii entails sentence i because if ii is true, i must be true, and if i is false, ii must be false.
Presupposition:
The person named Mary exists.
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entailment presupposition
and/or see http://www.msu.edu/course/lin/43
Sentence ii entails sentence i because if ii is true, i must be true, and if i is false, ii must be false.
Presupposition:
The person named Mary exists.
entailment presupposition
and/or see http://www.msu.edu/course/lin/43
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so what you are saying is, it is both entailment and presupposition, as i'm aware this is possible for a sentence to be both.
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Anonymousso what you are saying is, it is both entailment and presupposition, as i'm aware this is possible for a sentence to be both.Generally speaking:
A presupposition may be contained within a single sentence.
Entailment is a relationship between two sentences.
CJ
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