Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "generics"

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    • Generic Comparisons 

      Nickel, Bernhard (Oxford University Press, 2010)
      The paper discusses comparative generic sentences As are F-er than Bs—girls do better than boys in grade school, for example—which pose severe problems for extant accounts. In their stead, the paper proposes reconceiving ...

    • Generics and the Ways of Normality 

      Nickel, Bernhard (Springer Verlag, 2008)
      I contrast two approaches to the interpretation of generics such as ‘ravens are black:’ majority-based views, on which they are about what is the case most of the time, and inquiry-based views, on which they are about a ...