An Overview of Basic Beliefs and Totalitarian Political Applications Related to Generics
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Linguistics; Generics; Totalitarian
- Abstract
Generics are summary statements like “sharks eat people” or “Black people are able to run very fast”. By studying generics, people can understand the effects of language. Generics play a crucial role in people’s minds. This thesis mainly discusses some theories about generics: Leslie’s theory about generics and Haslanger’s theory, giving an analysis of them. By using the way of case analysis and logical deduction, the author concludes three beliefs: the belief in the law of existence, the belief in the law of perdurability and universality and the belief in human’s ability to analyze phenomena which people will hold when they are concluding phenomena into generics. Besides, by studying the case of the Nazi, the author concludes that by using generics, the government naturally owns the authority to control people’s behavior, concluding that in order to avoid negative effects caused by the use of political generics, people must first notice that there is no so-called good or bad attributes only belong to one or more groups. All the people’s attributes are developing instead of fixed. People also need to notice that some phenomena they observe do not have the authority for them to conclude a generic, since it’s possible for the government to deliberately provide some special phenomena in order to achieve its own purpose.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Zitong Qiu PY - 2022 DA - 2022/02/01 TI - An Overview of Basic Beliefs and Totalitarian Political Applications Related to Generics BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 120 EP - 123 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.021 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220131.021 ID - Qiu2022 ER -