This paper analyzes certain restrictions on polarity focus marking in clauses embedded under emotive factive predicates. It argues that these restrictions arise because this configuration leads to a systematic presupposition ...

In a recent paper García-Carpintero (2017) argues that proper names possess, in addition to their standard referential truth conditional content, metalinguistic descriptive senses which take part in semantic presuppositions. ...

Traditional, semantic, accounts of presupposition centre on truth conditional treatments relying on entailments. In contrast, our work concentrates on the investigation of presupposition as a pragmatic phenomenon which ...

The Reflexive-Referential Theory is a multi-content approach to utterance interpretation. Its main proponent, John Perry, assumes that utterances of sentences with singular terms express several contents, depending on how ...

This article elaborates local selective realism in view of the shifting from classical to quantum electrodynamics. After some introductory remarks, we critically address what we call global selective realism, hence setting ...

This work presents a presuppositional solution to the problem of vacuity of reference for demonstratives and names. The denominations vacuity of reference and no-reference problem refer to the same philosophical concern: ...