Quantified statements are recalled as generics: Evidence from preschool children and adults
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Quantified statements are recalled as generics: evidence from preschool children and adults.
Generics are sentences such as "ravens are black" and "tigers are striped", which express generalizations concerning kinds. Quantified statements such as "all tigers are striped" or "most ravens are black" also express generalizations, but unlike generics, they specify how many members of the kind have the property in question. Recently, some theorists have proposed that generics express cognit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Psychology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0010-0285
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2011.12.001