Generics and Defaults1
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1: Linguistic and Epistemological Background 1.1: Generic Reference vs. Generic Predication 1.2: Why are there any Generic Sentences at all? 1 .3: Generics and Exceptions, Two Bad Attitudes 1 .4: Exceptions and Generics, Some Other Attitudes 1 .5: Generics and Intensionality 1 .6: Goals of an Analysis of Generic Sentences 1 .7: A Little Notation 1.8: Generics vs. Explicit Statements of Regularities
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