User:Jhj43/sandbox1

This is the group sandbox for the Presupposition article.

Joyce Jo's Ideas

 * I feel that the "projection of presuppositions" section of the article is not extensive enough. It only gives one example of a filter, the conditional sentence, and does not include other examples. The other filters that should be included are 'either... or' sentences and conjunction sentences. In an 'either...or,' sentence, if the presupposition is after the 'either,' but before the 'or,' then the presupposition would project through the entire sentence. For instance, in the sentence "either my dad is kind, or I am evil by comparison," the presupposition that 'I have a dad' gets projected through the entire sentence. However, if the presupposition is after the 'or,' then whether the presupposition gets projected depends on whether the negation of the assertion before the 'or' entails the presupposition in the part of the sentence that is after the 'or.' The conjunction sentences have same rules as the conditional sentences. Also, I feel that the section the 'negation of a sentence containing a presupposition' is really talking more about reference and definiteness (or the presupposition of definite descriptions) then it is about negating presuppositions. In addition, I feel that the article did not really delineate the difference between a pragmatic presupposition and a semantic presupposition.

Update
Other individual proposals have been posted in an different sandbox. I've moved your proposal to that sandbox, which you can find here: jhj43/sandbox Cakers01 (talk) 20:08, 19 February 2018 (UTC)