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Learning from Generic Language

2019-04-30

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<p>Generic language (e.g., "Birds have hollow bones") conveys generalizations about categories and is a fundamental and ubiquitous mechanism of learning about the world. How exactly this learning occurs, however, is unclear: Generics exhibit so much flexibility in how they are interpreted that a quantitative theory of how generics update beliefs has not only not been developed or tested, but is often explicitly di...

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DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/hnm8p

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