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Mandy Simons
Philosophical Studies, vol. 112, 2003, pp. 251-278
Philosophical Studies, vol. 112, 2003, pp. 251-278
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Simons, M. (2003). Presupposition and Accommodation: Understanding the Stalnakerian Picture. Philosophical Studies, 112, 251–278. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023004203043
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Simons, Mandy. “Presupposition and Accommodation: Understanding the Stalnakerian Picture.” Philosophical Studies 112 (2003): 251–278.
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Simons, Mandy. “Presupposition and Accommodation: Understanding the Stalnakerian Picture.” Philosophical Studies, vol. 112, 2003, pp. 251–78, doi:10.1023/A:1023004203043.
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@article{mandy2003a,
title = {Presupposition and Accommodation: Understanding the Stalnakerian Picture},
year = {2003},
journal = {Philosophical Studies},
pages = {251-278},
volume = {112},
doi = {10.1023/A:1023004203043},
author = {Simons, Mandy}
}
Abstract
This paper offers a critical analysis of Stalnaker’s work on presupposition (Stalnaker 1973, 1974, 1979, 1999, 2002). The paper examines two definitions of speaker presupposition offered by Stalnaker – the familiar common ground view, and the earlier, less familiar, dispositional account – and how Stalnaker relates this notion to the linguistic phenomenon of presupposition. Special attention is paid to Stalnaker’s view of accommodation. I argue that given Stalnaker’s views, accommodation is not rightly seen as driven by the presuppositional requirements of utterances, but only by the interests of speakers in eliminating perceived differences among presuppositions. I also consider the revisions which are needed either to the definition of speaker presupposition or to the definition of sentence presupposition in light of the possibility of informative presupposition. In the concluding section, I discuss the ways in which some recent accounts of context and speaker presupposition depart from their Stalnakerian foundations.