generalization

Meanings

• reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
• an idea or conclusion having general application;
• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
• (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

Synonyms

• generalisation
• induction
• inductive reasoning
• generality
• abstraction
• stimulus generalization
• stimulus generalisation

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