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Noun Concept
Categories: Cognitive inertia, Pragmatics, Concepts in logic, Formal semantics (natural language), Semantics (linguistics)
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presupposition  factive verb  Factive verbs  Pragmatic presupposition  presuppose
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The act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) WordNet 3.0
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The act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. Wikipedia
A tacit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance Wikipedia Disambiguation
assumed context surrounding an utterance Wikidata
An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language. Wiktionary
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tacit assumption
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presuppose
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factive verb, Factive verbs, Pragmatic presupposition, presuppose, presupposed, presupposes, presupposition trigger, presuppositional, presuppositions

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