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Generalisation

From the novel Kio and Gus by Matthew Lipman:  “Kio says to himself: ‘Steam is water, ice is water, water is water. Everything is made of water.’ ”

He is moving from a particular fact to a general principle. This is generalisation. (The converse is exemplification: moving from a general...

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