noun. The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

noun. Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles.

noun. reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

noun. the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

noun. an idea or conclusion having general application

noun. (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

"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."

specialisation  specialization  

colligation  theorisation  theorization  

apperception  car-warrior  confutation  deniability  downsweep