Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blanket statement

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.02 in modern English

Syllables
blan-ket s-tate-ment
IPA
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of fallacy from making an inductive conclusion with insufficient evidence; a kind of faulty generalization; underpowered generalization

noun

A sentence wherein one wrongly assumes that one truth applies to a vast set of possibilities

Inflected Forms

blanket statements (plural)

Questions

What does blanket statement mean?
A type of fallacy from making an inductive conclusion with insufficient evidence; a kind of faulty generalization; underpowered generalization

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