Generalization
A meta-model violation in which a single experience is treated as a universal rule (e.g. 'I always mess up').
Generalizations like 'always', 'never', 'everyone', 'no one' are linguistic shortcuts that often outlive the experience that created them. The meta-model response challenges the universal: 'always?', 'every single time?', 'has there ever been an exception?'. Recovering even one counter-example loosens the generalization.
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