Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Winter 2004 Erich Rast (original) (raw)

Alice presupposes that Bob knows that in the given situation there is some coffee she’s refering to. (Presumably, she holds a cup of brown liquid in her hand and refers to the content of the cup.) Alice herself, if she’s not trying to deceive Bob, must believe as well that there’s coffee in the cup, and she believes that the coffee is good. !Literature !A Dialog !Common Ground !Update ! Illustration !Problems !Mad Scientist !Belief Sets !Expansion !Formal Update ! Informativity !Other Dialogs !Pragmatic Presupposition !Notes on Belief Revision !Problems !Compositional Projection