The sophisticated kind theory

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (9):1613-1654 (2023)
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1. Generic statements are some of the most intriguing statements we make. They are so central to our commonsense reasoning that every attested human language can express them (Dahl 1995; Cohen 2013...

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10.1080/0020174x.2016.1267407

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