noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sweeping statement/generalization
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He prefers a complicated sentence to a sweeping statement.
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Of course, this is usually so, but I am having little niggling doubts about such a sweeping statement.
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This is a sweeping statement which makes little obvious sense on first reading, so let us dissect it more carefully.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Those who reject generalization insist that history consists of unique and separate events.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Although they embody a real-world claim about how agents are motivated, they function more like a paradigm than a generalization .
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Comparison of evidence from other countries or geographical regions would seek to confirm this generalization .
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In our example, the data seem too contradictory to support any clear generalization about gender and voting.
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In such schemes generalization is regarded as a process applicable to different areas of content.
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Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives.
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Sometimes the phenomena are so complicated or the evidence is so mixed that no generalization is possible.
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The limited body of mathematical results describing chaotic control networks makes generalization difficult.