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where there is dispute about whether some
piece of meaning is within the scope of what is asserted or
outside it (i.e. presupposed/conventionally implicated), the
default/null hypothesis is that it is within. This is because
Lojban makes little if any use of presupposition/conventional
implicature (outside of UI, at least), does not discuss it in
Woldy, and has no established tradition of acknowledging its
existence in Lojban.
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I am hesitant to agree to such a sweeping principle, lest it be wielded without looking at the case at issue and hence stifle debate. However, I thnk that there are a variety of facts that suggest that internal quantification is presuppositional. Several have been mentioned already in this discussion, but the main one has not: the implicit {su'o} and {ro} and actually stated numbers as well, are never changed at the passage of a negation boundary: the implicit value with {le} is {su'o} throughout, and for {lo}, {ro}. These values can be inserted in any context without changing the utterance as a whole.
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