 In our second category, we have statements like “dinosaurs are extinct”, “the dodo is extinct”, “tigers are widespread”, and “the domestic cat is common”, which are often thought to predicate a property directly of the kind in question, rather than expressing generalizations concerning its members. For example, in saying “dinosaurs are extinct”, one says something about the kind dinosaur, namely that that kind of thing is extinct. We may notice that it is not possible to say of an individual dinosaur, Dino, that Dino is extinct, since only a kind can be extinct. Thus, for these generics, Carlson’s original idea—that bare plurals can refer directly to kinds, and thus that (at least some) generics involve predicating properties directly of kinds—remains widely accepted.