ABSTRACT
I introduced the notion of presupposition, and the related question of
presupposition projection, in Chapter One. Let me begin by reviewing
these notions. The view of presupposition I adopt is the pragmatic view
advocated by Stalnaker. On this view, to say that a speaker presupposes
a proposition p is to say that a speaker is disposed to act in her linguistic behavior as if pis commonly assumed by all participants in the discourse.
A sentence presupposes p if utterance of that sentence by a speaker would
