Re: Nonfirstorderizability

George wrote
> Natural language has presuppositions.

> Normally if we are predicating things of villagers
> and townsmen then we have PREsupposed (as OPPOSED to
> asserting) that they exist.

What exactly does this mean? If I say "at least one townsman is
unmarried" have I asserted or merely presupposed that there are any
batchelor townsman? Can you give a clear example of a sentence where
the existence of something is presupposed and not asserted?

William

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