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Linglib.Phenomena.Presupposition.Studies.Yagi2025

Possible states for the Buganda scenario.

  • kingOpens : W
  • kingDoesnt : W
  • presidentConducts : W
  • presidentDoesnt : W
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      p ∧ q = ⊥: the presuppositions conflict.

      φ_p: "The King is opening parliament" — presupposes hasKing.

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        ψ_q: "The President is conducting the ceremony" — presupposes hasPresident.

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          Observation (2a): the presupposition p ∨ q holds at every world.

          Observation (2b): the disjunction can be false. At kingDoesnt the presupposition is satisfied but both disjuncts fail.

          Strong Kleene never produces false for this disjunction. Because presuppositions conflict, at least one disjunct is always undefined, so the table never reaches the 0 ∨ 0 = 0 row.

          PrProp.or is never defined when presuppositions conflict.

          orFilter predicts presupposition failure at kingOpens, where the disjunction should clearly be true. The filtering condition demands the second presupposition hold when the first assertion is true.

          Flexible accommodation gives the correct presupposition p ∨ q.

          Flexible accommodation is always defined (never undefined).

          Weak Kleene disjunction with meta-assertion on each disjunct.

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            But meta-assertion loses the presupposition: the disjunction is false even when neither presupposition holds (if we had such a world). More concretely, 𝒜φ_p ∨_s ψ_q presupposes only ¬𝒜ψ_q → p (Yagi (11)), not the expected p ∨ q.