Yleistykseen
Yleistykseen is a Finnish illative form connected to the noun yleistys, which denotes the act or process of generalization. In Finnish usage, yleistykseen signals movement toward or intention to arrive at a general claim or conclusion that would apply beyond the specific observations at hand. It is a grammatical and rhetorical phrase rather than a distinct theory, and it commonly appears in academic and argumentative writing to frame statements about broader applicability.
In logic, statistics and scientific reasoning, generalization refers to inferring a general rule from observed cases.
Cautions accompany the concept: overgeneralization occurs when a general claim extends beyond what the data can
See also: yleistys, induktio, deduktio, generalization in statistics.