generalization

All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain

is tasked to propose characteristic constellations or iconic exemplars of how judgment and human conduct is organized.

Following Weber's ideal type method, we can rethink the task of generalization as that of proposing characteristic constellations or iconic exemplars of how judgment and human conduct is organized'

is the unpacking of long works and even entire cultures out of a close encounter with a tiny fragment because he is less concerned with sequence and form than he is with 'the representation of reality.

It is possible for Auerbach to unpack long works and even entire cultures out of a close encounter with a tiny fragment because he is less concerned with sequence and form than he is with 'the representation of reality.' Hence he does not need to say something about the origin and internal structure of a work so much as he needs to address and explicate its characteristic practice of referring to the world .. . The literary work is interesting to Auerbach not for its swerve away from reality . . . but rather for its claim on the world, its ability to give the reader access to the very condition for perception and action, along with the very condition for textuality, at a given place and time, in a given culture.' (Stephen Greenblatt and Catherine Gallagher)

is to think, as an idea is always a generalization.

An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.

All generalizations are false ... even this one

is to be done only in order to individualize better.

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