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generalization, generalisation 1. Psychol the evoking of a response learned to one stimulus by a different but similar stimulus 2. Logic the derivation of a general statement from a particular one, formally by prefixing a quantifier and replacing a subject term by a bound variable. If the quantifier is universal (universal generalization) the argument is not in general valid; if it is existential (existential generalization) it is valid 3. Logic any statement ascribing a property to every member of a class (universal generalization) or to one or more members (existential generalization) |
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These are interrupted by essays that attempt to generalise, either by looking at other barriers--the US Mexico border fence--or by theorising, with the help of such as Levi Straus and the Internet. A secondary aim was to provide the youth with a range of supplementary experiences to generalise the program's goals beyond the immediate learning context. Puis, avec le rejet generalise de la pretention d'Agassiz d'avoir decouvert des depots glaciaires en Amazonie en 1866, l'idde a ete oubliee. |
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