The standard view about generic generalizations is that they have a tripartite quantificational
logical form involving a phonologically null quantificational expression called 'Gen' …

According to an influential research program in cognitive science, philosophy, and
linguistics, there is a deep, special connection between generics and pernicious aspects of …

It has been argued that the primary acquisition of genericity in early child speech poses a
problem for standard quantificational approaches to generics and instead motivates the …

In this paper we examine people's tendency to accept false universal statements such as all
storks fly to Africa or all lions have manes as true even though they know such statements …

This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctions between two
different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aim was to find out when …

The kalām cosmological argument consists of two claims—one general (everything that
begins to exist has a cause for its existence) and one specific (the universe began to exist) …

Two experiments investigated whether 4-and 5-year-old children are sensitive to whether
the content of a generalization is about a salient or noteworthy property (henceforth …

The generic overgeneralization effect is an attested tendency to accept false universal
generalizations such as “all eagles fly” or “all snakes lay eggs” as true. In this paper, we …

I was led to the topic of generics by a comment my brother made during Christmas 2016. In
criticising a particular purchase his then-girlfriend had made, my brother, who was working …

This paper reports an experiment that investigates interpretive distinctionsbetween two
different expressions of generalization in Spanish. In particular, our aimwas to find out when …