adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to defaultism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
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defaultist
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noun
Meaning 2
One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, pragmatics, sciences
Examples
- 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".
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: contextualist
History
Etymology
From default + -ist.