World type for the king example.
Two possible states:
- kingExists: There is a (unique) king in this world
- noKing: There is no king in this world
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"The king exists" — a presuppositionless assertion.
This sentence has:
- No presupposition (trivially true)
- Assertion: the king exists
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"The king is bald" — presupposes king exists.
This sentence has:
- Presupposition: the king exists
- Assertion: the king is bald (true when king exists)
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"If the king exists, the king is bald" — using filtering implication.
Demonstrates presupposition filtering: the antecedent's assertion satisfies the consequent's presupposition.
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"If the king exists, the king is bald" has no presupposition.
This demonstrates presupposition filtering.
"The king isn't bald" — negation preserves presupposition.
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"It's raining" — no presupposition.
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"John knows that it's raining" — factive presupposition.
Presupposes: it's raining Asserts: John believes it's raining
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"John doesn't know that it's raining" — negation preserves factive presupposition.
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World type for change-of-state examples.
Models John's smoking history.
- usedToNowQuit : SmokingWorld
- usedToStillDoes : SmokingWorld
- neverSmoked : SmokingWorld
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"John stopped smoking" — presupposes prior smoking.
Presupposes: John used to smoke Asserts: John no longer smokes
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"John didn't stop smoking" — preserves change-of-state presupposition.
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"John smokes and he stopped" — contradiction via filtering conjunction.
Left conjunct: John smokes (no presup) Right conjunct: John stopped smoking (presupposes he used to smoke)
With filtering: left conjunct asserts smoking, right presupposes it was prior. This creates a pragmatically odd sentence (you can't currently smoke AND have stopped).
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- Phenomena.Presupposition.negationPattern = { name := "Negation", description := "Presupposition projects unchanged through negation", projects := true }
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- Phenomena.Presupposition.conditionalPattern = { name := "Conditional", description := "Antecedent can satisfy consequent's presupposition", projects := false }
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- Phenomena.Presupposition.conjunctionPattern = { name := "Conjunction", description := "Left conjunct can satisfy right's presupposition", projects := false }
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- Phenomena.Presupposition.disjunctionPattern = { name := "Disjunction", description := "Each disjunct can satisfy the other's presupposition", projects := false }