There was no indication of strict catagorical logic, so surely the ordinary interpretation would be of a generalisation from the majority.
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English doesn't require people to use quantifies like we do in mathematical notation, so most speakers go with an understanding of how ...
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"Summers are warm" doesn't mean EVERY summer is warm.
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"I like cats" doesn't mean I like EVERY cat.
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....to somehow put the burden on the speaker to clarify quantification in this one case ("men are nice"), differently from ALL OTHERS,...
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Should we essay to quantify the quantifications, or would that qualitatively be a quantity too far...
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Interestingly I wrote about this exact cognitive / linguistic phenomenon (in a different context) years ago: http://gregstevens.com/2013/02/12/gun-regulation-stops-gun-murders-true-or-false/ … LOL
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(Or perhaps not interesting.... I've written about almost everything at some point LOL)
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Well, I found the article interesting at least...
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I missed it. Deluged by tweets. Ignoring people unintentionally.
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