Generic statements (eg,“Birds lay eggs”) express generalizations about categories. In this
paper, we hypothesized that there is a paradoxical asymmetry at the core of generic …

Large language models (LLMs) have garnered a great deal of attention for their exceptional
generative performance on commonsense and reasoning tasks. In this work, we investigate …

Nominal concepts represent things as tokens of types. Recent research suggests that we
represent principled connections between the type of thing something is (eg, DOG) and …

Generics are statements such as “tigers are striped” and “ducks lay eggs”. They express
general, though not universal or exceptionless, claims about kinds (Carlson & Pelletier …

Generic sentences (eg, bare plural sentences such as “dogs have four legs” and
“mosquitoes carry malaria”) are used to talk about kinds of things. Three experiments …

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 …

What are the representations and learning mechanisms that underlie conceptual
development? The present research provides evidence in favor of the claim that this process …

Generic statements (eg,“Lions have manes”) make claims about kinds (eg, lions as a
category) and, for adults, are distinct from quantificational statements (eg,“Most lions have …

Generic statements such as “ducks lay eggs” make claims about kinds, eg, ducks as a
category. The generic overgeneralization effect refers to the inclination to accept false …

Generics are statements such as “doctors heal people,”“a tiger is striped,”“the dodo is
extinct,”“a duck lays eggs,”,“kettles boil water,” and “mosquitoes carry the West Nile virus.” …