 To put the model in less precise but more intuitive terms, the decision to utter a generic “\(K\)s are \(F\)” depends on beliefs a naive listener would likely have concerning the distribution of the property \(F\) over comparable kinds. Consider, for example, the distribution of the property laying eggs over animal kinds. For most animal kinds, the proportion that lay eggs is approximately zero, but there are some animal kinds for which ~50% of members lay eggs. Any other proportions of egg-laying are quite unusual. This describes the shape of the prevalence prior for laying eggs. Consider, then, an utterance of the generic “robins lay eggs”: approximately 50% of robins lay eggs, and hearing such a generic will, according to the mathematics of the model, lead the naive listener to update their prevalence prior in such a way that most of the probability distribution will be clustered around 50% and very little will remain around 0%. Thus, uttering this generic will lead the listener’s prevalence posterior to be better aligned with the speaker’s beliefs than their prevalence prior, and so the generic is endorsed.