What does defaultist mean?
Defaultist means Of or relating to defaultism..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Of or relating to defaultism..
A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.
For Experiment 8, the defaultists could make a similar argument about the absence of an SI-cancellation effect that I made about the absence of an SI-calculation effect.
There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.
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Defaultist means Of or relating to defaultism..
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Possible antonyms include contextualist.
A defaultist believes that the default interpretation of the phrase "some eels are fish" is the pragmatic interpretation "some, but not all, eels are fish".
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