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# Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | # Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | ||
# Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | # Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up. | ||
As you can see one sentence can have far more than just '''''one''''' presupposition!!! |
Revision as of 15:43, 18 March 2013
The utterance "Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?" has the following presuppostions:
- There are dishes that need to be washed up.
- They were dishes that need to be washed up before.
- Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
- Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
As you can see one sentence can have far more than just one presupposition!!!