Generics in context : generalisation, context and communication
This thesis consists of four chapters and an introduction. The first chapter is concerned with cases of purported genericity which are true despite only a minority of the kind in question satisfying the predicated property and whose predicated property is somehow striking. I argue that such cases ar...
Main Author: | Sterken, Rachel |
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Other Authors: | Glick, Ephraim |
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University of St Andrews
2014
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.647804 |
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