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The document discusses presupposition and entailment. It provides examples to illustrate how presuppositions, which are assumptions made before an utterance, do not always carry through or "project" to more complex sentences. Specifically, entailments, which are logical consequences of an assertion, can cancel out or destroy presuppositions. This is shown through examples where a presupposition is made but then an entailment is introduced that negates the presupposition. The key point is that entailments ar
- Author
- Shafira Adhelia
- Language
- EN