Previous research has shown that presuppositions can alter memory, but these results depend upon a restricted class of pragmatic conditions. Given a specified source with a presumed intention to mislead, listeners might not enter such presuppositions into memory. In two experiments, subjects first observed an accident depicted in a series of slides. In Experiment 1, the leading questions with n...

In this paper it will be shown how conditional presuppositions can be strengthened to unconditional ones if we assume that the antecedent and consequent of a conditional presupposition are independent of one another. Our notion of independence is very weak, and based on Lewis’ (1988) notion of orthogonality of questions. It will be argued that our way to strengthen these presuppositions does no...

In this paper, I will argue for a new account of presuppositions which is based on double indexing as well as minimal representational contexts providing antecedent material for anaphoric presuppositions, rather than notions of context defined in terms of the interlocutors' pragmatic presuppositions or the information accumulated from the preceding discourse. This account applies in particular ...

Any modern approach to a Marxist theory of culture must begin by considering the proposition of a determining base and a determined superstructure. From a strictly theoretical point of view this is not, in fact, where we might choose to begin.1 It would be in many ways preferable if we could begin from a proposition which originally was equally central, equally authentic: namely the proposition...

James Bugental and Irvin Yalom, noted existential psychotherapists and educators, both emphasize a psychotherapeutic method that cultivates presence. This important yet difficult to define therapeutic method deserves greater clarification due to its role in effecting therapeutic change. The present study compared Bugental and Yalom on selected presuppositions that relate to the cultivation of p...