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The ‘Fregean’ view of presupposition, and presuppositional failure, according to which there is a logical relation between sentences (or statements) such that if p presupposes q, p has no truth value (or the truth value ‘zero’) whenever q is not true, has, after enjoying a widespread popularity among linguists, been subjected to attacks from several scholars, most notably Allwood 1972, Wilson 1972, 1975, Kempson 1975. In these works, a more orthodox two-valued logic is defended.
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Dahl, Ö. (1981). In Defense of a Strawsonian Approach to Presupposition. In: Klein, W., Levelt, W. (eds) Crossing the Boundaries in Linguistics. Synthese Language Library, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8453-0_9
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