Generalizations

Word GENERALIZATIONS
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Definitions and meanings of "Generalizations"

What do we mean by generalizations?

The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.

A proof, axiom, problem, or definition which includes another's cases, and also some additional cases.

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The word "generalizations" in example sentences

I believe that I succumbed to temptation, your example of smear thy enemy with the straw man, pejorative generalizations, is so alluring, one can not resist. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More than a few scholars and devotees of Eliot's oeuvre have gone to great lengths to convey that certain generalizations can be made regarding the natures and functions of the corresponding sections of the poems. ❋ James Zinsmeister (2010)

Though I agree that generalizations is likely to occur and categorizations will take place but I think the local and state will do what is right. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The effect of these kinds of generalizations is dehumanization, and the ultimate outcome, is violence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

` One of our generalizations is that every system founded upon class and caste contains within itself the germs of its own decay. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Please speak in generalizations if possible, because they seem to ring true for the men in my city. ❋ Carolyn Hax (2010)

Obviously, there are certain generalizations you can make about this generation, based largely on the cultural influences that have acted upon the boomers as they have gone through their various life stages. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The problem with generalizations is that they are general. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The distinction between laws and accidental generalizations is a matter of degree. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Stereotypical reaction to make sweeping generalizations from a short passage like this. ❋ Miss Snark (2006)

And it results in generalizations which while not, I hope, erroneous are on occasion not as precise as I’d ideally like. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He saved himself, however, after the sane and conservative manner of his kind, by labelling his generalizations as “tentative.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

A theory is a systematically related set of statements, including some lawlike generalizations, that is empirically testable.... ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

However, induction (or something very much like it) plays a crucial role in the theory of scientific knowledge in the Posterior Analytics: it is induction, or at any rate a cognitive process that moves from particulars to their generalizations, that is the basis of knowledge of the indemonstrable first principles of sciences. ❋ Smith, Robin (2007)

The dual-nature Manichean? model should appeal to UU's because it is much more practical and less speculative than sweeping one-word generalizations about the nature of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They're both generalizations, which is what creates the racial tensions in Cincinnati, and everywhere, to begin with. ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2005)

"My friend," he said, "I'm sure you realize the difficulty of solving specific problems on the basis of generalizations, which is virtually all that the theory of cyclic history has to offer." ❋ Van Vogt, A. E. (1950)

He saved himself, however, after the sane and conservative manner of his kind, by labelling his generalizations as "tentative." ❋ Jack London (1896)

Funny how these kinds of "generalizations" cut both ways. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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