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More On Presupposition A further study of presupposition Contents 1. Types of presuppositions 2. Presupposition triggers 3. Projection problems 4. Accommodation of presuppositions 5. Cultural Presupposition 6. Presupposition in Critical discourse analysis 1. Types of presuppositions 1.1 Existential Presupposition Certain words presuppose the existence of a person or something which is called existential presupposition. Pronouns such as he, she and names like Tom, Mary, Lily and so on presuppose the existence of a person. Demonstrative pronouns in English like this, that, these, those p