defaultist

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of or relating to defaultism.

2. 2

   One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word,…

   One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.

   • 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.

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