It supplied a stimulus which brought into the most pronounced action a pre-existing train of generalizing dialectics and Zenonian negation, an intellectual vein with which the religious impulse rarely comes into confluence.
Not till such verification has been made, is one warranted in generalizing the result, and enunciating a formula applicable to unknown particulars (rationem terminorum cognoscere, dum res ignoret).
When, after having obtained an affirmative answer about several similar particulars, you wish to put a question generalizing the result, you will sometimes find no universal term fitting the position.
Greek: Nou=s] as the generalizing or universalizing aptitude of the soul, growing up gradually out of the particulars furnished by Sense and Induction.
Generalizing or universalizing is an acquired intellectual habit or permanent endowment; growing out of numerous particular acts or judgments of sense, remembered, compared, and coalescing into one mental group through associating resemblance.
The habit of generalizingnames precedes that more advanced state of society in which men generalize phenomena.
The science of understanding, by generalizing contradiction, solves all concrete contradictions.
The entire nature of reason consists in generalizing sense perceptions, in abstracting the common elements out of concrete things.
This is the glow of pleasure that the generalizing step always affords him who takes the step himself.
Every theorem in geometry is a law of external nature, and might have been ascertained by generalizing from observation and experiment, which in this case resolve themselves into comparisons and measurements.
The common practice of citing some exceptionally bad cases, and by tacit inference generalizing from them to the whole country, is in nothing more misleading than in the matter of housing.
This is one more proof of the untypical character of London, and of the fallacy of generalizing from it to the rest of the country.
Generalizing the issue: If the immanent organization be ascribed to thought, why should its work be such as to demand continuous correction and revision?
He sees the folly of generalizing easily upon the state of nature.
Here, clearly enough, Locke is generalizing from the English constitution; and its sense of compromise is implicit in his remarks.
His work On Stones is dominated by the practical rather than the generalizing spirit.
Not only so, but he was able to advance this study by generalizing and formulating its truths.
Henderson's talk had the notable flavor of direct contact with life, and very little of the speculative and reflective tone of Morgan's, who was always generalizing and theorizing about it.
Cousin was observational andgeneralizing rather than analytic and discriminating.
His philosophy exhibited in a striking manner the generalizing tendency of the French intellect, and its logical need of grouping details round central principles.
The domain of the concrete, or of practical life, has always a variable element which does not obtain in the sphere of generalizing Principles, and which immensely complicates the investigation of the problems of real existence.
For it is along this loop-line of "memories and ideas of the distant" that poetry wins its generalizing or universalizing power.
Or does the mystery of permanence reside in the poet's generalizing power, by which he is able to express universal, and hence permanently interesting human experience?
Generalizing by the noise the public makes with its hands when it approves of anything, she argued that everything it applauds must be good.
Maggy's conversational trick of generalizing led away from the point Woolf wanted to press.
The modeler must have judgment enough and skill enough to read between the lines, and to undo the generalizing of the topographer and draughtsman, thus supplying the material omitted from the map.
Such generalizing is of course perfectly proper in a map, but, with the same scale, we expect more detail in a model.
Walsh convicts his opponents of hasty generalizing if not anti-clerical zeal.
What, then, of ourgeneralizing friends, the pedagogues?
Every theorem in geometry is a law of external nature, and might have been ascertained by generalizing from observation and experiment, which in this case resolve themselves into comparison and measurement.
But the objections against a generalizing plan were not confined to the mistaken fear that we sought to antagonize the productive work of the specialist.
All that our Congress had to secure was thus merely that the generalizing discussion of principles should not be left to men who generalized because they lacked the substantial knowledge which is necessary to specialize.
And this is effected by generalizing the categories of consciousness and applying them as principles of interpretation to the world.
Almost all of them, it will be observed, result from the habit of generalizing instead of searching for the pictorial and the particular.
I must, however, previously remark, that the power of generalizing ideas, to any great extent, is not very common amongst men or women.
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
I am naturally led by this assertion to the main subject of the present chapter, and shall now attempt to point out some of the causes that degrade the sex, and prevent women from generalizing their observations.
So far as we can judge from those instances where his subjects were painted also by other artists, his portraits are good likenesses, but he followed the best practice in generalizing the countenance to the fullest extent.
Raphael was the last man to execute a portrait of a Pope without generalizing high character in the features.
But a far wider significance than is thus indicated, is conveyed by the necessity for generalizing expression in order to reach the painter's ideal.
Natural philosophers do not dream of generalizing with any such speed as that used by the observers of men; yet they might do it with more safety, at the risk of an incalculably smaller mischief.
These anecdotes exhibit but a slight exaggeration of the generalizing tendencies of many modern travellers.
He is expected to write philosophy and biography: skill in drawing individual character, the power of describing individual achievements, with a clear perception of general causes, and the generalizing faculty of enlarged philosophy.
Still, when I hear clever, practical politicians talk, I always listen with keen interest; for the details in which they seem to me too much absorbed, are a corrective to mygeneralizing tendency on all such subjects.
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