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PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; I. Generics; 1. Generics: A PhilosophicalIntroduction; 2. Generics and Concepts; 3. Conceptual Representation andSome Forms of Genericity; 4. Are all Generic Statements Created Equal?; 5.Stability in Generic Concepts and Evaluating the Truth of Generic Statements;6. Generics as a Window onto Young Children's Concepts; II. MASS TERMS; 7.Mass Terms: A Philosophical Introduction; 8. A Piece of Cheese, a Grain ofSand: The Semantics of Mass Nouns and Unitizers; 9. On Using Count Nouns,Mass Nouns, and Pluralia tantum: What Counts?; 10. Count Nouns, SortalConcepts, and the Nature of Early Words; INDEX