Presupposition
Consider the following famous example from Bertrand Russell.
The present king of France is bald.
According to Russell, (1) is false because it asserts the existence of the present kin...
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Entailment, Presupposition, and Implicature
Entailment, as used by philosophers, is a term of art that, unlike logical consequence, lacks a precise definition that is consistently adhered to by those ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the Japanese press:
GUIDELINES TO PREVENT NEWS BIAS (The Japan Times, an
English-language daily)
The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association h...
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Vienna (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI on Friday slammed abortion as the
"opposite" of a human right, stressing on the first day of a three-
day visit to Austria, that life was a ...
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A little more than a week into Michael Bloomberg’s pseudo-campaign for president, the inevitable backlash has begun. In accordance with the conventions of counterintuition, the on-second-thou...
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Alfred McCoy titled his book A Question of Torture. Heaven knows why. He doesn’t ask any questions. Instead, he just piles up assertions intended to demonstrate that the C.I.A. has conducted ...
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Alfred McCoy titled his book A Question of Torture. Heaven knows why. He doesn’t ask any questions. Instead, he just piles up assertions intended to demonstrate that the C.I.A. has conducted...
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I was a high-school and then a college student when the startling literary boom dubbed “The New Journalism” happened in the late 60’s and early 70’s. To me, it might as well...
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I was a high-school and then a college student when the startling literary boom dubbed “The New Journalism” happened in the late 60’s and early 70’s. To me, it might as wel...
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Lizz Winstead was having brunch in the Noho Star on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4, wearing a Hüsker Dü T-shirt. Slight and fierce, with a tinge of gray at the roots of her curly, brownish-blon...
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Presupposition
Japanese editorial excerpts -2-
