Attributee

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    That to which something is attributed; a target of attribution.

    "I follow Salmon ( 1989 ) in taking what is pragmatically communicated here to be about linguistic expressions, but avoid the notion of guise of belief in favor of unproblematic general beliefs of the attributee."

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"I follow Salmon ( 1989 ) in taking what is pragmatically communicated here to be about linguistic expressions, but avoid the notion of guise of belief in favor of unproblematic general beliefs of the attributee."

Etymology

From attribute + -ee.

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