This is a pomo phenomena and can be identified at several layers of abstraction. One layer is meaning: words don't have definitions...they only have uses. The underlying principle is that no generalization is valid. The crux of the conflict between critical theory and pomo.
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It's pomo. It's liberal. It's conservative. It's male. It's female. It's socialist. It's Libertarian. No group has a corner on this fallacy.
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I'm already happy when people do use "generally" or "usually", but in my experience people too often get sloppy and just say eg "Westerners" or "Asians" are like this or like that... but stating individual exceptions is of coz not the best way to point out their fallacy..
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How many would make it *unusual*?
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It’s more amazing how often people think that something is *generally* or *usually* the case because they have experienced or witnessed examples of it (and/or so have their close associates).
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Sometimes people say “ generally” or “usually” the case based on one single instance of occurrence or observation. And often people say that based on a biased sample.
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That will happen when in general you don't understand the scope of the idea and you generally don't appreciate the meaning of generally.
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Why is this so common is a mystery to me. Too many points I can think off as to why it happens
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