The property versatility view of generics

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"Consider the following two sentences: 

The orthodox view maintains that, despite superficial similarities, these sentences have very different semantic structures. The former involves applying a property to the kind potato, while the latter involves quantification over individual potatoes. In this talk, we challenge the orthodoxy and defend an alternative account of generics, one according to which sentences such as (1) and (2) have a very similar structures, both involving ascribing a property to a kind."

 

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