Thursday, March 01, 2007
Pär Segerdahl, Language Use, Chapter 16, "Presuppositions and Methods of Linguistics"
Explaining failures of use by way of presupposition failure is to mistake a linguistic form of description for actual use. Talk of presuppositions makes sense only against a background of normal use. We should aim for a careful description of linguistic practice, not an explanation of it.
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