generalisation

Suppose I said that I loved the people in India, I should not mean by that that I had any feeling about any individual soul of all those dusky millions, but only that I massed them all together; or made what people call a generalisation of them.

Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV Alexander Maclaren 1868

And, on the other hand, the forming of a generalisation is the putting together in one class all those cases which present like relations; while the drawing a deduction is essentially the perception that a particular case belongs to a certain class of cases previously generalised.

Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861

"Nature," recalling your generalisation about the diadelphous structure, and now explaining the exception of Coronilla.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

The detail behind the generalisation is a stint as a partner in Executive Outcomes, a South Africa-based mercenary outfit whose most high-profile alumnus is Simon Mann - the former SAS officer who arrived back in the UK earlier this month after five years locked up in a prison in Equatorial Guinea on charges of involvement in a plot to overthrow the state.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

The detail behind the generalisation is a stint as a partner in Executive Outcomes, a South Africa-based mercenary outfit whose most high-profile alumnus is Simon Mann - the former SAS officer who arrived back in the UK earlier this month after five years locked up in a prison in Equatorial Guinea on charges of involvement in a plot to overthrow the state.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

This is a generalisation which isn't very helpful as it stands.

Conservative, essentialist 2009

And by the time we get to the third paragraph of Dangerous Characters we are deep into the kind of generalisation which makes me realise that my indifference to all things literary is even more intense if you can have an intense indifference than I had guessed.

Dangerous Characters Michael Allen 2005

It's a crass generalisation which is comforting for people who have themselves cheated.

Chelsea Blog 2010

A fairly ridiculous generalisation which is far more in line with Nazi ideology by which all Jews were greedy and corrupt and all Slavs lazy, stupid and subhuman.

Army Rumour Service 2010

It's a crass generalisation which is comforting for people who have themselves cheated.

Chelsea Blog 2010