 Empirical evidence supports Haslanger’s hypothesis. For example, from a young age, we tend to interpret information conveyed via generic language as indicating a stable and intrinsic property of the kind, whether the kind is natural or social (e.g., Cimpian and Erickson 2012; Cimpian and Markman 2009, 2011). Further, hearing generic language about a novel social or animal kind leads both children and adults to essentialize that kind in the first place . For example, even a wholly novel social group, composed of individuals who are diverse for race, ethnicity, gender, and age will rapidly be essentialized by preschoolers and adults alike if they hear various properties being attributed to the group via generic language (Gelman, Ware and Kleinberg 2010; Rhodes, Leslie and Tworek 2012; Leshin, Leslie and Rhodes 2021). (An interesting quandary emerges when we note that quantified statements are often interpreted and recalled as generics: is there any way to speak of social groups at a general level without inducing essentialist beliefs?)