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Tag Name "Generality" (47)

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Generality is, indeed, an indispensable ingredient of reality for mere individual existence or actuality without any regularity whatever is a nullity. Chaos is pure nothing.
Charles Sanders Peirce
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We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.
Tim Berners-Lee
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It is certain that the easy and obvious philosophy will always, with the generality of mankind, have preference above the accurate.
David Hume
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Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.
Will Self
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This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
Douglas Hofstadter
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The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical I mean Euler.
William Whewell
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Philosophy is explicitness, generality, orientation and assessment. That which one would insinuate, thereof one must speak.
Ernest Gellner
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The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.
George Ade
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Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as for their own.
Gordon S. Wood
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To the generality of men you cannot give a stronger hint for them to impose upon you than by imposing upon yourself.
Henry Fielding
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The word 'security' is a broad, vague generality whose contours should not be invoked to abrogate the fundamental law embodied in the First Amendment. The guarding of military and diplomatic secrets at the expense of informed representative government provides no real security.
Hugo Black
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As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.
Jacques Derrida
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The generality of men expend the early part of their lives in contributing to render the latter part miserable.
Jean de la Bruyere
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The opinion I have of the generality of women--who appear to me as children to whom I would rather give a sugar plum than my time, forms a barrier against matrimony which I rejoice in.
John Keats
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All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.
Angela Carter
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Mathematicians themselves set up standards of generality and elegance in their exposition which are a bar to understand.
Kenneth E. Boulding
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite] in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
Arthur Cayley
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I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.
Mary Wortley Montagu
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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
Augustus Hare
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It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.
Samuel Johnson
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One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the deliberation with which Archimedes approaches the solution of any one of his main problems.
Thomas Little Heath
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No generality has any weight whatever. It is like saying how do you do? When you have no intention of inquiring about ones health. But specific claims when made in print are taken at their value
Claude C. Hopkins
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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
David Hilbert
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