Situational Investigation of Presupposition
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This paper gives a formal theory of presupposition using situation semantics developed by Barwise and Perry, We will slightly modify Barwise and Perry's original theory of situation semantics so that we can deal with non-monotonic reasonings which are very important for the formalization of presupposition in natural language. This aspect is closely related to the formalization of incomplete knowledge in a r t i f i c ia l intelligence,
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Topics in presupposition theory
ing away from tense, this example can be formalized by the DRS in figure 2.3. The linear notation for this DRS is man fat push bicycle poss male . Let us consider this DRS in the context of a DRS which informs us about the situational background.
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