Definition of Generalization

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Definition of Generalization
	Generalization The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. A general inference. Related Definitions: Act, Bringing, Class, Deduction, From, General, Generalizing, Genus, Inference, Of, Or, Principle, Process, The, Under

Generalization Quotations

The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Avoid context and specifics; generalize and keep repeating the generalization.
Jack Schwartz

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.
Samuel E. Morison

Even the recognition of an individual whom we see every day is only possible as the result of an abstract idea of him formed by generalization from his appearances in the past.
James G. Frazer

Generalization Translations

generalization in German is Verallgemeinerung

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