‘Boys Don’t Cry’ – An Ambiguous Statement?

As has often been observed in the literature, an utterance of a generic such as ‘Boys don’t cry’ can convey a normative behavioral rule that applies to boys, roughly: that boys shouldn’t cry. This observation has led many authors to the claim that generics are ambiguous: they allow both for a descri...

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Auteur principal: Katharina Felka
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Publié: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences 2021
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Accès en ligne:https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28305
https://doaj.org/article/0e53985d7b7a415995387f68529d28d4
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