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 cognitively fundamental/default generalizations, and that
quantified statements in contrast express cognitively more sophisticated generalizations …