A new look at the ‘Generic Overgeneralisation’ effect

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Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy:1-27 (2017)
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While generic generalisations have been studied by linguists and philosophers for decades, they have only recently become the focus of concentrated interest by cognitive and developmental p...

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10.1080/0020174x.2017.1285993

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