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The projection problem There is a basic expectation that the presupposition of a simple sentence will continue to be true when that simple sentence becomes part of a more complex sentence.This is one version of the general idea that the meaning of the whole sentence is a combination of the meaning of its parts.However,the meaning of some presuppositions (as ‘parts’) doesn’t survive to become the meaning of some complex sentences (as ‘wholes’).This is known as the projection problem.In example [12],we are going to see what happens to the presupposition q (‘Kelly was ill’) which is assumed to be