(December 9, 2016 at 1:04 pm)Asmodee Wrote: When you group people together based on a label that label has to describe THE ENTIRE GROUP. You cannot assign meaning to that label based on what a few, some, half or even most of them are like because IT MUST DESCRIBE ALL of them.
It depends of whether the proposition in question is a definition, broad generalization, normative description, or a statement about the average. A broad generalization can be accurate even if it is not true in every instance. You must also take into account whether the noun is used in a way that refers to a category or in a way that refers to a type.
