Exact(1)
The "abstractionist" approach considers that the lexical item in question has "a single, highly abstract sense, which is simply broad enough in meaning to apply to many different surface referents, or which happens to have many different pragmatically predictable uses" (Sweetser 1986: 528).
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Predictable predictions?
For example, Ross paradox is often quickly rejected as elementary confusion (Føllesdal and Hilpinen 1971) or it is rejected on the grounds that the inference is only pragmatically odd in ways that are independently predictable by any adequate theory of the pragmatics of deontic language (Castañeda 1981).
I view abortion pragmatically.
Verdict Pragmatically hard Brexit.
I'm a catch, pragmatically speaking.
Pragmatically, they believed it would be ineffective.
"Shared sacrifice" is his pragmatically coy mantra.
How predictable!
Pragmatically, there's good reason for evasion.
Be predictable".
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