Kind of random topic here but I was wondering what everyone thinks when they hear someone makes a claim about a group but doesn't quantify it beforehand. On a grammar/logic/language level (rather than the actual content of what is being said), is it the case that someone means All [group] has attribute Z? To pick a non-political example: I could say "Detroit Red Wings fans are great people". This could mean that:
1) all red wings fans are great
2) some/most red wings fans are great
3) what distinguishes red wings fans from other fans is that they're great.
Hopefully this isn't too pointless, lol. No, this isn't for homework, I just find a lot of these claims going around in politics and the dialogue might be made more clear if we had some understanding of what we mean when we leave the quantifiers up for interpretation/assumption.