Generalization

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case. … The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

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The highest of generalizations is the synergetic integration of truth and love.

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People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.

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A single observation that is inconsistent with some generalization points to the falsehood of the generalization, and thereby 'points to itself'.

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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

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We generalize from one situation to another not because we cannot tell the difference between the two situations but because we judge that they are likely to belong to a set of situations having the same consequence.

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Only the great generalizations survive. The sharp words of the Declaration of Independence, lampooned then and since as "glittering generalities," have turned out blazing ubiquities that will burn forever and ever.

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