{"id":953,"date":"2024-02-09T05:06:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T05:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/generalizations-are-the-offspring-of-wisdom\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T05:06:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T05:06:08","slug":"generalizations-are-the-offspring-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/09\/generalizations-are-the-offspring-of-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Generalizations are the Offspring of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"

People foolishly oppose generalization. One often hears, 'Never generalize!' But that itself is a generalization in the imperative mood. The partisan of brute particularity who so opines is hoist by his own petard.<\/span><\/p>\n

So it was with pleasure that I heard Dennis Prager one day  remark   that "Generalizations are the mother of wisdom." But my man had the cart before the horse. Being a quibbler and a pedant, I cannot forebear to suggest an improvement:<\/span><\/p>\n

   Generalizations are the offspring of wisdom<\/span><\/p>\n

Or perhaps: <\/span><\/p>\n

   Generalization is wisdom's distillate.<\/span><\/p>\n

For wisdom does not spring from generalization; it is rather that (true) generalizations spring from wisdom as its expression and codification.  <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People foolishly oppose generalization. One often hears, 'Never generalize!' But that itself is a generalization in the imperative mood. The partisan of brute particularity who so opines is hoist by his own petard. So it was with pleasure that I heard Dennis Prager one day  remark   that "Generalizations are the mother of wisdom." But my … Continue reading “Generalizations are the Offspring of Wisdom”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290,414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-of-the-mind","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}