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Philosophy of LanguageAdvanced23 minPlanned

Generics

'Ducks lay eggs', 'mosquitoes carry malaria', Leslie's default generalisations, and generic essentialism

Planned, not yet written

This rung already has its place in the Philosophy of Language ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.

Will definegeneric generalisationcharacterising genericstriking property genericgeneric essentialism
Assumesgeneralized quantifiernatural kind term

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