Sentences with phrase «sweeping generalizations from»

Could you really make such sweeping generalizations from such a limited experiment, they asked.

This sweeping generalization from Ms. Smith's prehension of her past experience is based on the speculation that the relations that constitute all atomic events can also be understood as prehensions.

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His evidence for his sweeping economic generalizations ranges from the impressionistic to the nonexistent.

On the contrary, I should claim, what I have been saying is metaphysical in the second sense of the word which I proposed in an earlier chapter; it is the making of wide generalizations on the basis of experience, with a reference back to verify or «check» the generalizations, a reference which includes not only the specific experience from which it started but also other experiences, both human and more general, by which its validity may be tested — and the result is not some grand scheme which claims to encompass everything in its sweep, but a vision of reality which to the one who sees in this way appears a satisfactory, but by no means complete, picture of how things actually and concretely go in the world.

If I am going to make a sweeping generalization on a group of people based on a single incident, i.e this article, and I am, then the only thing I took from this piece is that Muslims aren't funny.

These calculators tend to make broad, sweeping generalizations on activity level, and fail to take into account the nearly infinite variables introduced over the course of a full day (e.g. how far away one parks from the store, and how many cups of coffee consumed which controls how many hours an individual spent at her desk twitching her leg, these and more can all blow calorie calculations out the window).

I would like to spend a few blog posts thinking aloud about the case for educational entrepreneurs, but before I make any more sweeping generalizations, it'd be great to hear from you:

These sweeping generalizations are very effective in removing all blame from the school system and preventing education reform efforts that could ensure that EVERY child receives the same quality of schools and teachers that wealthy students enjoy.

You're doing this absurd thing where you're somehow starting from the fact that self - publication is open to everybody, and so a lot of crap gets through the lack of gatekeepers, and ending up in this mysterious land of illogic and sweeping generalization where therefore all self - published work is crap.

Without resorting to too much dry, technical language about alleles, or to unhelpful, sweeping generalizations, we'll try to explain what makes a white cat's coat white, and what distinguishes these cats from the extremely rare albinos.

But what «science» exactly allows one to make sweeping generalizations about the state of the entire Earth from millennial hence, and somehow be able to predict the exact year by year future in the present.

More basic studies and secondary analyses are needed... to support the sweeping generalizations that are made about the impact of father absence from a relatively small core of data.»