Dual Character Eliminativism

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Extant dual character concept theories hold that utterances like `\textit{a} is not a scientist but, ultimately, \textit{a} is a true scientist' are felicitous because the head noun is polysemous, denoting a concept that permits dissociated categorization along descriptive and normative lines. This paper develops an eliminativist critique of such theories, arguing that this sort of dissociation is incoherent on a literal reading and requires pragmatic reinterpretation to achieve felicity at the level of speaker meaning. If such utterances are indeed coherent in context, they are more plausibly explained by context-sensitive category extension than by the hybrid lexical structures posited by dual character theories. Thus, eliminativism dispenses with dual character concepts and offers a semantically parsimonious treatment of double dissociation, {emphasizing} the importance of distinguishing between literal and loose categorization.
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Authors Lucien Baumgartner
Journal journal of pharmaceutical analysis
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/analys/anag075
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https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anag075
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