See contextualist on Wiktionary
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"English terms with usage examples",
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"text": "A contextualist believes that the phrase \"some eels are fish\" is primarily interpreted as \"some, and perhaps all, eels are fish\", and the pragmatic interpretation \"some, but not all, eels are fish\" only appears when demanded by the context.",
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"One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from contextual inference, not from a default association with a word."
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"(pragmatics) One who believes that scalar implicatures arise from contextual inference, not from a default association with a word."
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