Are All Generics Created Equal?
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Such genericity is a feature of entire sentences (or at least of entire clauses), and is not attributable to any subpart of the sentence, such as to the subject noun phrase or to the verb phrase. It is instead somehow an interaction between the two. This sets it apart from another type of genericity, which is attributed to the noun phrase’s referring to an abstract genus (or kind) and not as making a statement about the individual members of that genus, as in
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