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Definition

The process by which participants in a discourse decide to accept (and not question) information that is presupposed by a sentence uttered in the discourse, even though the presupposition was not satisfied prior to the utterance.

Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson