Generics and the ways of normality

Linguistics and Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 629-648

  Nickel, Bernhard ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generics; Induction; Natural language; Probability; Semantics

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349141917     PISSN: 01650157     EISSN: 15730549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10988-008-9049-7     Document Type: Article

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