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ber to (and forget to) are not factive verbs and do not presuppose the truth of the memory; they presuppose only the Subject's will to remember, that is, they presuppose the subject's memory of a certain action:
23167-0246a.GIF
The presupposition is that the subject wants a certain object to move from a possible world into the actual world. Moreover, there is an optional presupposition in which the Subject can (or cannot) have forgotten O at some time between the assumption of the engagement and its conclusion. The asserted content is that the Subject, in the actual world and at the speech time, is aware of his previous engagement and does what he committed himself to do. To deny that someone remembers to do something means to assert that the Subject did not perform the action in question because he was not aware of his previous engagement, but it does not deny the previous engagement itself.
The description of forget to is similar to remember to:
23167-0246b.GIF
The only difference is in temporal states: forget to needs only two different temporal states, the time of the commitment (t-1) and the time of the (unsuccessful) realization. It is not necessary to consider an intermediate time, at which the Subject might not be aware of the commitment.
The predicates remember that and forget that have a different description. Remember that and forget that are factive contructions and presuppose their propositional objects:
remember that: [(Ow0t-2)23167-0246c.gifSw0t-1~AWARE OF (Ow0t-2)]Sw0t0 AWARE OF (Ow0t-2)
forger that: [Ow0t-1]Sw0t0~AWARE OF (Ow0t-1)
The use of remember that in first-person and negative sentences requires some discussion. A sentence such as (20),
(20) I don't remember that we met before.

 
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