attributee

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noun

That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.

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Meanings

nounattributee (plural attributees)

plural attributees

  1. That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.

    I follow Salmon ( 1989 ) in taking what is pragmatically communicated here to be about linguistic expressions, but avoid the notion of guise of belief in favor of unproblematic general beliefs of the attributee.

    2006 November 22, Arvid Båve, “A pragmatic defense of Millianism”, in Philosophical Studies, →DOI

Origin

From attribute + -ee.

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