reject all “generalizations
Perhaps “boob tube hypnosis” is the reason why so many people today will immediately and thoughtlessly reject all “generalizations” like “men are more aggressive than women” as “stereotypes.” They are confusing comprehension andextension.Theyaremisinterpretingastatementaboutcomprehensionasif it were one about extension, and that is why they think that the fact that Mrs. X is more aggressive than Mr. X disproves the statement that “men are more aggressive than women.” They cannot or will not rise to the original statement’s level of abstraction and argue with it on its own level.
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The statement is not about all the individuals that have the nature of male and the nature of female, but about those natures in abstraction from the individuals that have them. Those who reject all generalizations because they can find some exceptions to them are thinking only on the concrete sense level of extension, not on the abstract con- ceptual level of comprehension; they are operating like cameras (sense experi- ence) plus computers (calculating the quantities of extension), but not like human minds (understanding essences, natures, “what's”)
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