It might be noted that the tacit assumption, evident here, that incorporation of electromagnetism into spacetime geometry requires a generalization of the Riemannian geometry of general relativity, though widely held at the time, is not quite correct (Rainich 1925; Misner and Wheeler 1962; Geroch 1966).
Getting the right answer to that question requires generalizing from the evidence even though the generalization could be wrong.
Certainly this is only a general scheme and the concrete process of a generalization could include many variations.
The sweep of the theoretical generalization that closed the natural selection chapter, restated even more generally in the final summary of the book, required Darwin to deal with several obvious objections to the theory that would occupy him through the numerous revisions of the text between 1859 and 1872.
Consequently, those who resist the "semantic interpretation" of theories argue that we might as well treat each as a substitution instance of the principle of natural selection generated by a different probabilistic propensity measure of fitness as a distinct empirical generalization to begin with instead of a model-theoretic definition.
The 16 authors of a 2011 Brookings report on central banking put it this way:The generalization of inflation targeting cum floating exchange rates could thus be regarded as the triumph of the "own house in order" doctrine in the international monetary field.
There are many exceptions to this generalization.
Call this the problem of inessential generalization.
As a matter of fact, there is a tendency to regard this question as part and parcel of the more general problem of choosing the appropriate semantics for fuzzy logic, which typically amounts to an infinitary generalization of some truth-functional three-valued semantics.
As a generalization of our intuitions regarding dimensionality, consider a large square.
The latter type of generalization brought to the fore the question of the intensional adequacy of a theory's proof concept.
