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What is Ability to form a concept and generalize is known as and explain in detail?
Thinking characterised by the ability to grasp the essentials of a whole, to break a whole into its pas, and to discern common propeies. To think symbolically. Ref: Synopsis of Psychiatry, 11e, pg 1407.