defaultist
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to defaultism.
noun
One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from a default association with a word, rather than arising from contextual inference.
Example Sentences
- "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."