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  <Title>Presuppositions as Beliefs</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="259" end_page="259" type="concl">
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5 Summary
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have found that agents' beliefs are relevant to an account of presupposition, and that it is necessary to consider all agents involved in discourse when deciding to whom belief in a presupposition should be attributed. We have described an account of presupposition that therefore makes beliefs central. This account includes a new definition of presupposition that captures it more precisely than earlier ones.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> Treating presuppositions as beliefs -- with full consideration given to all agents' beliefs -- not only allows a more correct analysis by avoiding the Truth Assumption and the Shared Belief Assumption; it also makes it possible to account for presuppositionM phenomena that could not be explained otherwise.</Paragraph>
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