(Ävâ²Ä­d) adj. 1. Having or marked by keen interest and enthusiasm: an avid golfer; an avid interest in cooking. 2. Having or marked by strong desire or craving; greedy: an economy with an avid appetite for consumer goods.
Definition: Making assumptions about a whole group or range of cases based on a sample that is inadequate (usually because it is atypical or too small). Stereotypes about people (âlibrarians are shy and smart,â âwealthy people are snobs,â etc.) are a common example of the principle underlying hasty generalization.
Bake construed with an implicit argument. mcccicing an existential in-terpretation, can only be about the baking or bread or other baked goods, and not, for example, about roasts, or bricks. Similarly, the implicit argument of win, which gets an anapboric mm ac rpretat ion, is understood to be a contest-type of euutitv ma Ia r than a prize-typeof entity.