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can understand at once. In other words, we enact the maximum of knowledge between us and (only) the addressee.
The pragmatic analysis of presuppositions is a task which, for the most part, still has to be performed: a truly vertiginousenterprise,yet one which cannot be abandoned if, beyond the logical relations between utterances, human communication is considered a rel- evant object of study.
See also: Pragmatics; Presupposition.
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