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Laurel J. Brinton Article: Individual Goals

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Article evaluation
Article title: Presupposition

The first subheading, "Negation of a sentence containing a presupposition" is overly technical, very unclear and doesn't seem entirely relevant to the article. While negation of presuppositions is undoubtedly an important topic, this should not be how a wikipedia page on Presupposition begins. On a similar note, the second to last section "Accommodation of presuppositions" is also overly technical and doesn't explain presupposition accommodation in a way that feels appropriate for Wikipedia. Both of these topics could be included in the wikipedia page with more accessible language.

The article seems to do a fairly good job of explaining presupposition from the perspective of formal pragmatics, and seems relatively up to date. While the bulk of the article is spent on explaining presupposition from the formal perspective, there is a brief section on presupposition in CDA, which could probably be expanded upon. The article does not seem biased per say, but it does seem to rely on a singular theoretical perspective of presupposition, rather than exploring some of the more nuanced views.

This article is well-referenced for the most part. The links and references look good, and I recognize a few of the major citations. The only citation needed deals with the discussion of synthetic personalisation in the CDA section.

On the talk page, there are some discussions of content that has been removed, and a debate about the word presupposition itself and whether the pre prefix is necessary. There are also questions about what presupposition is and how it differs from a presumption. This article is part of two WikiProjects: Philosophy and Linguistics. This article has also been edited by student editors as part of a Wiki Education Foundation course.

On the whole, this Wikipedia page is surprisingly well-aligned with the way that I've seen Presupposition discussed in both my Pragmatics and Semantics coursework. If anything, this article suffers from being overly technical at times.