Entailment vs. Presupposition
Entailmentnoun
The act of entailing, the state of being entailed, or something that is entailed.
Entailmentnoun
The act of entailing or of giving, as an estate, and directing the mode of descent.
Entailmentnoun
The condition of being entailed.
Entailmentnoun
A thing entailed.
Entailmentnoun
something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied);
Presuppositionnoun
An assumption made beforehand; a preliminary conjecture or speculation.
Presuppositionnoun
The act of presupposing.
Presuppositionnoun
(linguistics) An assumption or belief implicit in an utterance or other use of language.
Presuppositionnoun
The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
Presuppositionnoun
That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
Presuppositionnoun
the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument)
Presupposition
In the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics, a presupposition (or PSP) is an implicit assumption about the world or background belief relating to an utterance whose truth is taken for granted in discourse. Examples of presuppositions include: Jane no longer writes fiction.
