 In recent years, there has been increasing interest in generic generalizations among psychologists. Cognitive psychology has long been interested in understanding how our conceptual knowledge concerning kinds is organized and represented; however, until somewhat recently the connection with generic sentences, and the generalizations they articulate, had not been explored. Psychologists’ interest in generics lies primarily with what these sentences can reveal about our basic ways of conceiving of kinds, rather than specifically with formulating a semantic analysis of Gen. However, several results from psychology arguably place important constraints on what the semantics of generic sentences might look like.