When we engage in single-valued ‘thinking’, what is actually going on is insidious… we ‘generalize over the continuum’, and take that derivation to ‘inform us of the identity of some persons, situations, or ‘facts”. This is not thinking. It is the skeletal remains of what might have become insight, understanding, or awareness… which, having ‘gone absent’, now present to thought as ‘certainty’ and ‘correctness’.

Universal generalizations in language an thought represent the most common and fundamental errors in the cognition of moderns. And it’s being weaponized by corporations, religions, governments and electronic media…

“Science has always suffered from the vice of overstatement. In this way conclusions true within strict limitations have been generalized dogmatically into a fallacious universality.”

-Whitehead (Function of Reason).