The sophisticated kind theory

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy:1-47 (2016)
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Generic sentences are commonsense statements of the form ‘Fs are G,’ like ‘Bears have fur’ or ‘Rattlesnakes are poisonous.’ Kind theories hold that rather than being general statements about indivi...

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10.1080/0020174x.2016.1267407

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