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The art of saying something true about everything by saying nothing specific about anything.
means A broad, non-specific statement or principle that applies widely but lacks the detail to pin down any particular case.
from From French généralité, built on Latin generalis ('relating to a kind or class'), itself from genus ('birth, race, kind'). The same genus root branches into gender, genre, and generate — all words about sorting things into kinds. 'Generality' simply took that sorting instinct and pushed it to its vaguest, widest extreme: so general it covers the whole genus and specifies none of its members.
- math virtue
- a theorem's power grows as its assumptions shrink
- writing vice
- vague claims feel profound but explain nothing
- logic term
- opposite of a particular, not of a detail
- rhetoric trick
- politicians love it because it offends no one