Pragmatic presupposition and unarticulated constituents

Abstract

There is a tradition of purely semantic identification of variables within the logical/syntactic level, which understands the meaning of sentences as only fully linguistically complete depending on the context. However, this article argues that the meaning of our natural language loses its epistemic relevance if we only refer to a semantically context-sensitive analysis, since speakers are the ones who mean things with words and not language by itself.