The word "generalizing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to an action or process of forming or stating a general view or concept based on particular instances or examples. For example, "The professor was generalizing about the prevalence of poverty in rural areas."
From a general perspective, care is advisable when generalizing ligand-receptor interaction results across multiple cell-lines" (Björkelund et al. 2011, 1).
Getting the right answer to that question requires generalizing from the evidence even though the generalization could be wrong.
Thus, they viewed this particular aspect of development as an emergent and self organizing product of many decentralized and local interactions taking place in real time, with the promise of generalizing this approach to cognitive development more generally.
But (b) we could know this general truth on the basis of experience only by generalizing from examples of right and wrong that we encounter in experience.
In addition, some Bayesians follow Jeffrey in generalizing the Simple Principle to apply to cases in which one's new evidence is less than certain (also discussed below).
Generalizing the intension-extension distinction to proper names solves a problem that must be faced by anyone espousing the view that predication is, at root, identity.
(There is reason to think that, on this second point, Nietzsche is generalizing from his own experience with physical suffering, the worst periods of which coincided with his greatest productivity.
Beauty is an enormous category of value, for so many disparate things are beautiful that generalizing about its nature is a formidable challenge.
For consider: The fact (i) that the pld are finite whereas natural languages are infinite shows that children must be generalizing beyond the data when they are learning their language's grammar: they must be proposing rules that cover as-yet unheard utterances.
In this view, science is objective to the degree that it succeeds at discovering and generalizing facts, abstracting from the perspective of the individual scientist.
For the Neoplatonists, generalizing a principle formulated in the Philebus — "that everything that comes to be comes to be through a cause" (26e, cf. Tim.
