All the generalization means is that some of both are found in every age and in every country, and that is true whether we are dealing with the liar or with the religious person.
Hence the generalization that a State Church is always a persecuting Church, with the corollary that a Church, as such, has nothing to do with so secular a thing as persecution.
There was, however, anothergeneralization of Bagehot's that was unquestionably sound.
And yet when stated with the necessary qualifications the generalization is as sound as it can well be.
The generalization has all the attractiveness which appeals to those who are not in the habit of looking beneath the surface, and in particular to those whose minds are still in thraldom to religious beliefs.
If what has been said be granted, it follows that all ethical rules are primarily on the same level as a generalization in any of the sciences.
It is, indeed, one of the proofs that ourgeneralization does represent a law of nature that it cannot be "broken.
This also was a sweeping generalization but it becomes intelligible as we follow the process by which Quimby reached his conclusions and it helps us to understand the significance of Belief as one of the key words of Christian Science.
With the wider generalization which admits of recognition of fixed law, there is always the narrower, concerned with variable conditions to which the wider is to be applied.
Such is a brief outline of the theory; and looked at simply as a theory, there is a manifest attraction in the boldness of the conception, and the wide sweep of the generalizationwhich it includes.
This generalization is illustrated by a most attractive series of observations, introducing to a fuller knowledge of the laws of heat.
The first principles of demonstration, the material of thought, must, consequently, be supplied by some power or faculty of the mind other than that which is engaged in generalization and deductive reasoning.
This enumeration is at present to be regarded as provisional, and in part hypothetical--a verbalgeneralization of the different principles which seem to be demanded to explain the existence of a thing, or constitute it what it is.
To our objective perception and comparison nothing is given but qualities and changes; to our inductivegeneralization nothing but the shifting and grouping of these in time and space.
The highest scientific generalization does not carry us one step beyond this fact.
Hence that highest generalization by Aristotle of all first principles; as--1.
Then every approach towards a scientific comprehension and generalization of the facts of the universe must carry us upward towards the higher realities of reason.
But how universal and necessary principles can be obtained by a generalization of limited experiences is not explained by Aristotle.
There are nevertheless, in mathematics, some examples of so-called induction, in which the conclusion does bear the appearance of a generalization grounded on some of the particular cases included in it.
The reasoning lies in the act of generalization, not in interpreting the record of that act; but the syllogistic form is an indispensable collateral security for the correctness of the generalization itself.
Algebra extends the generalization still farther: every number represents that particular number of all things without distinction, but every algebraical symbol does more, it represents all numbers without distinction.
The statement, that Mars moves in an elliptical orbit, was no generalization from individual cases to a class of cases.
This mode of correcting one generalization by means of another, a narrower generalization by a wider, which common sense suggests and adopts in practice, is the real type of scientific Induction.
The truth is, that this greatgeneralization is itself founded on prior generalizations.
This generalizationmay appear to some minds not to amount to much, since after all it asserts only this: “it is a law, that every event depends on some law.
The whole amount of generalization which the case admitted of, was already completed, or might have been so.
The resolution of the one generalization into the other two, not only shows that there are possible limitations of the former, from which its two elements are exempt, but shows also where these are to be looked for.
There may, however, be incorrect generalization when this mistake is not committed; when the investigation takes its proper direction, that of causes, and the result erroneously obtained purports to be a really causal law.
So far as regards the direct application of an approximate generalization to an individual instance, this question presents no difficulty.
It would yet be a great error to offer this large generalization as any explanation of the inductive process.
This generalization appears to me to have that high degree of scientific evidence which is derived from the concurrence of the indications of history with the probabilities derived from the constitution of the human mind.
Shrewd observation there is indeed, but its strength is in broad generalization and epigrammatic characterizations.
It must, however, be remembered that so important a generalization is as yet supported upon a somewhat narrow base of observation.
He founded his generalization to a large extent upon the observation that in Gloeosiphonia capillaris two cells completely fuse, and that only one nucleus can be detecteo in the fused mass.
Mahommed ben Musa al-Khwarizmi), a branch of mathematics which may be defined as the generalization and extension of arithmetic.
Generalization is not a process of mere naming, it is also a process of inference.
In 1892 he wrote: "The doctrine of evolution is no speculation, but a generalization of certain facts .
The consequences which have flowed from this prophetic generalization of the ectoderm and endoderm are familiar to every student of evolution.
Such lists would have been pointless had any generalization been possible.
Would the scientist of nature ever be satisfied with this kind of explanation, which is nothing but generalization of certain sequences?
The result is tested in the light of past experiment and a generalization is formed which means something to the pupil.
Once planted victoriously on the conquered ramparts the hypothesis becomes a theory--a generalization of science--marking a fresh coign of vantage, which can never be successfully assailed unless by a new host of antagonistic facts.
But they all do tend to bring out the generalization expressed by Mr. Wallace in the formula, that "every species has come into existence coincident both in time and space with preëxisting closely allied species.
It is only, however, in a broad sense that this generalization is now thought to hold good.
And if a poison is in common use, we must embrace all the results of such use in a perfect generalization before we can decide impartially.
It is but fair to apply an equally large generalization to tobacco.
The naturalist accumulated facts and multiplied names, but he did not go triumphantly from generalization to generalization after the fashion of the chemist or physicist.
As the number of units taken diminishes, the amount of variety and inexactness of generalization increases, because individuality tells for more and more.
We are attemptinggeneralization about a class of remarkably peculiar and difficult persons.
The first is that both scientific generalization and literature proper have been and are and must continue to be the product of a quite exceptionally heterogeneous aggregation of persons.
We move from homogeneous to heterogeneous conditions, and we must beware of every generalization we make.
But between these data there are great interrogative blanks nogeneralization will fill-- cases, situations, temperaments.
He who anticipates a dry record of facts or a sequence of immature generalization will find himself happily mistaken.
Facts should always be placed in the foreground, and they should be made the basis of the generalization we call laws, and then the latter naturally lead to theoretical conceptions.
At first blush, it might seem as if the very nature of logical theory as generalization of the reflective process must of necessity disregard the matter of particular conditions and particular results as irrelevant.
Generalization of the nature of the reflective process certainly involves elimination of much of the specific material and contents of the thought-situations of daily life and of critical science.
But the effect of this was still further to impress upon Congress the necessity of somegeneralization of the process of relief.
Mr. Blaine adduced some other examples less extreme than those quoted, but the generalization was no doubt too broad and presented in some respects an erroneous conclusion.
It is always dangerous to generalize on such a topic, and when the generalization inclines to be not wholly laudatory, to the danger of being guilty of inaccuracy is added that of floundering into blank discourtesy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "generalization" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
