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Definition of Generalisations
1. generalisation [n] - See also: generalisation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Generalisations
Literary usage of Generalisations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1898)
"If the approximate generalisations leading to the affirmative are, when added
together, less strong, or in other words, farther from being universal, ..."
2. Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by William Stebbing (1875)
"APPROXIMATE Generalisations, AND PROBABLE EVIDENCE. THE inferences called probable
rest on approximate generalisations. Such generalisations, besides the ..."
3. A Treatise on the Principles of Chemistry by Matthew Moncrieff Pattison Muir (1884)
"Certain generalisations are usually adopted as guides in interpreting the results
of the study of the 'chemical habitude' of molecules. ..."
4. The New Testament in the original Greek by Brooke Foss Westcott, Fenton John Anthony Hort (1896)
"Hence the basis on which Transcriptional Probability rests consists of generalisations
as to the causes of corruption incident to the process of ..."
5. Lectures on the Ikosahedron and the Solution of Equations of the Fifth Degree by Felix Klein (1888)
"ESTIMATION OF OUR PROCESS OF THOUGHT so FAR, AND Generalisations THEREOF. ...
For carrying out more thoroughly the generalisations p .-o- posed in the text, ..."
6. The Elements of Ethics by John Henry Muirhead (1892)
"... are Empirical Generalisations. Hence the further criticism of the method
recognised by utilitarianism that it is empirical. Morality is a generalisation ..."
7. The Elements of Ethics by John Henry Muirhead (1897)
"On the Utilitarian Theory Moral Laws are Empirical Generalisations. Hence the
further criticism of the method recognised by utilitarianism that it is ..."
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