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In Austin's terminology, to call "real" a trouser-word means that
{ 1 } - it's the most general in a series of related words.
{ 2 } - something could be a real X but not a real Y.
{ 3 } - it's used to distinguish narrower and wider senses of a term.
{ 4 } - the negative form (what "real" contrasts with) is more basic.
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In Austin's terminology, to call "real" a trouser-word means that
{ 1 } - it's the most general in a series of related words.
{ 2 } - something could be a real X but not a real Y.
{ 3 } - it's used to distinguish narrower and wider senses of a term.
{ 4 } - the negative form (what "real" contrasts with) is more basic.
This is another point -- one that Austin expresses by saying that "real" is a dimension-word.
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In Austin's terminology, to call "real" a trouser-word means that
{ 1 } - it's the most general in a series of related words.
{ 2 } - something could be a real X but not a real Y.
{ 3 } - it's used to distinguish narrower and wider senses of a term.
{ 4 } - the negative form (what "real" contrasts with) is more basic.
This is another point -- one that Austin expresses by saying that "real" is substantive-hungry.
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In Austin's terminology, to call "real" a trouser-word means that
{ 1 } - it's the most general in a series of related words.
{ 2 } - something could be a real X but not a real Y.
{ 3 } - it's used to distinguish narrower and wider senses of a term.
{ 4 } - the negative form (what "real" contrasts with) is more basic.
This is another point -- one that Austin expresses by saying that "real" is an adjuster-word.
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In Austin's terminology, to call "real" a trouser-word means that
{ 1 } - it's the most general in a series of related words.
{ 2 } - something could be a real X but not a real Y.
{ 3 } - it's used to distinguish narrower and wider senses of a term.
{ 4 } - the negative form (what "real" contrasts with) is more basic.
We can give a definite sense to "real" in a given context only if we know what "real" is supposed to exclude. We speak of a "real duck" (instead of a "duck") to exclude being a decoy, a toy stuffed animal, a picture, etc. I don't know how to take the assertion that it's a real duck unless I know just what, on that particular occasion, the speaker has it in mind to exclude.
Put differently, "Is it real?" prompts us to ask "Is it 'real' AS OPPOSED TO WHAT?" So the negative form wears the trousers.
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