defaultist

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to defaultism.
2. noun 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".

Similar words

essentialist traditionalistic pluralist distributist neutralist populist classist culturalistic populationistic classicistic