Presuppositional Forms: Spurious “Not” - Today, when someone presents a simple outcome or limitation (using few enough words that it can be presupposed in a longer sentence. Ex. “being confident” or “making more money”), use the following presuppositional form to presuppose the outcome or to change the limitation into a resource.

Spurious “Not”:

“I wonder if you’re not already able to be confident.”

“I wonder if you’re not already learning to make more money.”

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