 The empirical findings suggest that these cognitively fundamental generalizations are articulated as generics rather than quantified statements. Compared to generic generalizations, quantified generalizations represent cognitively more taxing and sophisticated generalizations. This is potentially of philosophical interest since many of the semantic analyses of Gen reviewed above aim in some way or other to reduce Gen to the more theoretically tractable quantifiers—for example, the possible worlds and normalcy-based approaches often analyze Gen in terms of universal quantification over worlds, individuals, or both. Thus, on such an account, generic generalizations constitute a specific kind of universal quantification—the restriction of universal quantification to a range of (often complex, abstract) entities. On such an account, generics depend on universal quantification, and the latter is in some sense more fundamental than the former. Depending on one’s view of the subject matter of semantics, it may be a challenge to reconcile such a view with the available psychological data.