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Old 11-16-2003, 12:06 PM   #25 (permalink)
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Are you being cheeky with the "detection" powers of women? A lot of people I know believe that people have a social "sixth sense" but I find this largely false. Perhaps I'm just projecting myself here 'cause I don't see much of anything in a person other than what they tell me.

While I can understand the desire to not overgeneralize, if something appears to be true for every element in a set and for a sizeably large set, then it ceases to be a generalization (or overgeneralization, as you call it) and simply becomes what you know. BMW's make nice cars. Is that an overgeneralization, or do I say that because every car I've seen them make was really nice?
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