Do you like fairy tales? Remember them? After all, we associate them with our childhood, and it is they that have a significant impact on the formation of a person's personality. Fairy tales teach goodness, help to navigate in life. And, despite the fact that fairy tales are fiction, it is thanks to them that we gain new experience. They make our life fuller and generalize entire classes of concepts. So, in the topic of today's publication, we will look at what it means to "generalize".
Meaning of the word, examples
Based on the interpretation of dictionaries and encyclopedias, we note that to generalize is, first of all, to make something or something general, or universal. As an example, let's take the following sentence: "French fashion has generalized throughout Europe." In this case, the word "generalize" should be understood as "has become general or generally accepted."
The word "generalize" is also used in the meaning of "summing up", "summing upconclusions”, “summarizing what has been said.”
In the process of knowing life, a person moves from concepts of smaller volumes to a concept with a large volume. This kind of logical thinking teaches us what it means to generalize. That is, when comparing objects or phenomena, we must be able to see in them the features that are common to all of them.
So, here's the simplest example. The word "rose" means flower. What is a flower? This is a plant. What is a plant? This is a living organism. This simple example demonstrated a chain of generalized concepts according to a certain attribute.
Let's give another example of generalizing words. All these people: sailors, fishermen, stokers, loaders, divers, cabin boys, smugglers - they were all saturated with the strong smell of the sea. In this case, the listed activities are summarized by the phrase “all these people.”
Don't generalize
Each of us has heard a phrase of this kind. What does she mean? Remember a school course in geometry, where the contradiction method is used to prove the obvious. So this phrase will help to understand what the word "generalized" means.
Representatives of the younger generation had to hear the dissatisfaction of snobby old men and old women more than once that they are, they say, good for nothing, they don’t know how, they don’t go to study and work. It is precisely in this case that I want to say: “There is no need to generalize!” At all times there were, are and will be among the younger generation people of progressive views, musically gifted, talented programmers, and along with them, unfortunately, there will always be a certain percentage of stumbled young people.
Visiting a fairy tale
Returning to the theme of a fairy tale, we note that a certain character in a fairy tale who fights evil, has courage, courage and heroism, gives us the opportunity, generalizing all these qualities together, to try on this mask in our soul, thereby we choose your own ideal character and hold on to it. Even if only internally, but do not forget that without an internal core, the external formation of those positive character traits that are generalized in fairy tales is impossible.
