defaultist

1. not comparableOf or relating to defaultism.

plural defaultists

1. human sciencesOne 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".

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   Hence, there can be little doubt that Levinson is a strong defaultist.

   2010, Bart Geurts, Quantity Implicatures, page 87

   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.

   2010, Arjen Zondervan, Scalar Implicatures Or Focus: An Experimental Approach, page 191

   There is, however, no true conflict between defaultists and contextualists.

   2018, Rita Finkbeiner, Ulrike Freywald, Exact Repetition in Grammar and Discourse

   Antonyms: contextualist