Generics and Weak Necessity

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy:1-28 (2018)
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A prevailing thought is that generics have a covert modal operator at logical form. I claim that if this is right, the covert generic modality is a weak necessity modal. In this paper, I pr...

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10.1080/0020174x.2018.1426683

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Genericity and Inductive Inference.Henry Ian Schiller - forthcoming - Philosophy of Science:1-18.

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