Laws, Regularities and Exceptions

Sentences of the form ‘ F s are G s’ can express laws of nature, weaker Special Science laws, and also regularities which are not a part of any explicit science. These so‐called generic sentences express nomic relationships which may have exceptions. I discuss the kinds of regularities expressed by generic sentences and argue that since they play a similar role in determining our ability to categorise and reason about the world, we should look for a unified treatment of them.