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Generalization

One of the three main processes in our brain, our language and communication is that of generalization. In order to be able to communicate we must express the identity of one thing to another, and the sameness of our words.

The development of consciousness as an apparatus of government: only accessible to generalizations. Even what the eye shows enters consciousness generalized and trimmed.

Notebook 34, April- June 1885 paragraph 187