Glossary term W

Whole Presupposed Proposition

A whole presupposed proposition is a presupposition that does not contain a variable to be instantiated.

The utterance the fact that she is a woman is no disqualification presupposes the whole presupposed proposition she is a woman.

  1. Prince 1986, 209
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