Meaning

2 senses
  1. A type of fallacy from making an inductive conclusion with insufficient evidence; a kind of faulty generalization; underpowered generalization

  2. A sentence wherein one wrongly assumes that one truth applies to a vast set of possibilities

Examples

2 sentences
  1. Try to avoid making blanket statements.

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  2. "Only a moron truly believes in blanket statements like this." "That's actually a blanket statement too." "Ha, I know."

    ru«Только идиот реально верит в такие обобщения». – «Это, вообще-то, тоже обобщение». – «Ха, знаю».

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Forms

plural: blanket statements

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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