PP201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Hasty Generalization, Universal Generalization, Operationalization
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In significant respects, the future will resemble the past. When we argue from experience, we use information about things that have been experienced to draw a conclusion about what we can expect from similar things that have not yet been experienced, and may never be experienced. In an argument from experience, the conclusion might be false even if the premises are true. The more experience the argument is based on, the more likely it is that the conclusion holds. Universal generalization uses experience of some members of a class as a premise supporting conclusion about members of that class. Draws a conclusion about some objects that you can probably never experience. Generalization to a particular an argument that moves from many experienced members of a class to a single unexperienced object of that kind. Begins with knowledge about the prevalence or proportion of a certain property or properties in a group of experienced cases.
