The first threatens to be so particular as to lose all interest, whereas the second threatens to be so general as to lose all empirical relevance to real historical processes.
The weaknesses include the fact that topics studied at A-level tond to be so general that they don't relate directly to the society of the country where the language is spoken.
Your criticism was that the Occupy message was "so general as to be undemanding" and that "I just feel we've got to do a bit better than that".
The guidelines offered by the prize's administrators — "distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life" — are so general as to be useless, but a glance at previous winners gives a pretty good sense of what those terms mean to the committee that awards (or, ahem, withholds) the Pulitzer each year.
He used the comedy show Father Ted to explain his exasperation with the Occupy London protesters whose encampment outside St Paul's cathedral caused a crisis in the Church last year and whose language, he said, was "so general as to be undemanding".
In this respect, Goodman's theory is similar to many semantic theories of art: it proves that expression, for example, describes a symbolic relation only by giving a theory of symbolism that is so general as to include almost every human artifact.
The SAIC guidelines are so general as to be meaningless.
Mr. Bush scorned arms control as the basis of relations, seeing it as anachronistic, and the treaty he signed was so general it came to fewer than 500 words.
Perhaps children of this age have difficulty understanding the concept of worrying (e.g. "I worry about the future"), or items on worrying are so general that they apply to some extent to all children with anxiety disorders.
Being so general, the approach needs to be specified in order to inspire original applications.
