ABSTRACT
Self-evident (implicit) assumption about the sense of a linguistic expression or utterance. The term, taken from the analytical philosophy of language (Frege, Russell, Strawson), has been the subject of intensive debate in linguistics since 1970 and has led to some very distinct definitions. On the one hand, the term is unclear because the transfer of logical concepts to natural languages is not governed by an algorithmic set of transfer rules and, on the other hand, because the relationship between logic and linguistics and the role of both in the analysis of natural languages is, at best, unclear (see Garner 1971).
