Assumption vs. Generalization — What's the Difference?

A thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof

The act or an instance of generalizing.

The action of taking on power or responsibility

A generalization is a form of abstraction whereby common properties of specific instances are formulated as general concepts or claims. Generalizations posit the existence of a domain or set of elements, as well as one or more common characteristics shared by those elements (thus creating a conceptual model).

The reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.

A principle, statement, or idea having general application.

Arrogance or presumption.

An act or instance of generalizing; concluding that something true of a subclass is true of the entire class

The act of taking to or upon oneself

The formulation of general concepts from specific instances by abstracting common properties.

The act of taking possession or asserting a claim

Inductive reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

The act of taking for granted

An oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of the members of a group.

Something taken for granted or accepted as true without proof; a supposition

(mathematics) A proof, axiom, problem, or definition that includes another's cases, and also some additional cases; a conclusion reached by inferring from specific cases to more general cases or principles.

(Archaic) Presumption; arrogance.

The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars.

(Logic) A minor premise.

A general inference.

Assumption(Christianity)The taking up of the Virgin Mary into heaven in body and soul after her death, observed as a feast on August 15.

The process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.

Reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.

An idea having general application;

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

(logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

The taking of a person up into heaven.

A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.

(rhetoric) Assumptio.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.

The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.

The taking of a person up into heaven.

A statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn;

A hypothesis that is taken for granted;

The act of taking possession of or power over something;

Celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox church

Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to;

(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

The act of assuming or taking for granted;