["Mind &Language, EarlyView. ", "\nHumans seek to predict, explain, and control their environments. Generalizations—like those expressed by “children like candy” and “cigarettes cause cancer”—provide one resource to facilitate these tasks. We develop a proposal tying the acceptability judgments of generics to the psychological functions of generalizations. We argue that the notion of stability and a recognition of the varied scope of regularities provide resources for a unified account of an apparently diverse range of generics: causal and categorical, essentialist and structural. This unifying account coheres with the function of generalization in human psychology, and provides a new framework ripe for further investigation.\n"]