Abstract
This paper argues that universally quantified generalizations have or lack existential import, depending on whether they express lawlike or non-lawlike propositions. This solves the old quarrel between Aristotelian and modern logical analyses of generalizations of this form. But the price we pay is to give up the notion of logical form, since lawlikeness is a question of the epistemic state of the linguistic community, not of form. It is argued that this price is worth paying in any case on independent grounds.
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