University thesis:
Dissertation, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2024
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Description:
This interdisciplinary thesis reviews and refines the concepts of generalisation and generalising statements (e.g. all ravens are black) as a phenomenon of human cognition and language. The main parts of the thesis target researchers from linguistics, (computational) literary studies and natural language processing. The first part establishes a formal framework that explains the interplay between belief worlds, logical inference and the truth value judgements for generalising statements. Hereby, it incorporates findings from psycholinguistics and provides a unifying analysis for various typ...