A fallacy in reasoning committed by some scholars who take a cognitive lexical semantics approach, particularly as evident in the full-specification model of polysemy. Dominiek Sandra, who coined the phrase, argues that to view all context-bound usages of a particular lexical item as instances of polysemy is to commit what he calls the polysemy fallacy. The fallacy can be paraphrased as follows: because a lexical item exhibits distinct semantic contributions in context, each distinct semantic contribution is due to a distinct underlying sense or lexical concept. According to Sandra this reasoning is fallacious as it does not follow that all or even many distinct instances associated with a lexical item provide evidence for distinct senses stored in semantic memory. The polysemy fallacy then serves to underplay the role of context in providing a linguistic unit with a semantic value.