Sentence examples for generalization sentence from inspiring English sources

Mightn't it be that, when the economist utters a certain strict generalization sentence in an "economic setting" (say, in an economics textbook or at an economics conference), context-sensitive considerations affecting its truth conditions will have it turn out that the utterance is true?

If special scientists do make true utterances of generalization sentences (sometimes ceteris-paribus generalization sentences, sometimes not), then apparently nothing stands in the way of them uttering true special-science lawhood sentences.

Second, there is also a need to determine the truth conditions of the generalization sentences used by scientists.

Notice that the professor's sentence needn't include some implicit ceteris-paribus clause in order for his utterance to be true; as this example illustrates, in ordinary conversations, plain old strict generalization sentences are not always used to cover the full range of actual cases.

As Asher and Pelletier (Asher and Pelletier 1997) have argued, the semantics for such sentences seems to involve intentionality: a generic sentence can be true even if the majority of the kind, or even all of the kind, fail to conform to the generalization.

Mass nouns can also be used in generic sentences, which express generalizations: Gold is metal.

"One should also expect the generalization of minimum prison sentences".

In addition, to clearly describe the generalization analysis, I have added a few sentences to the Results section.

Several studies have documented positive effects when applying a specific treatment protocol in terms of increasingly correct production of target complex sentence structures with some variance in generalization patterns noted across individuals.

Third, there is the a posteriori and scientific question of which generalizations expressed by the sentences used by the scientists are true.

The universal generalization of sentential functions like these thus produces lawlike sentences, while their instantiation to individual constants or to ambiguous names produces (what are known as) nomological conditionals (Fetzer 1981, 49 54).