Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "generalizations" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "generalizations" over time.
A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements. As such, they are the essential basis of all valid deductive inferences, where the process of verification is necessary to determine whether a generalization holds true for any given situation. Read more on Wikipedia