Abstraction

Abstraction: simplification/generalization – reduction of spatial temporality to a level that can be processed by organisms using binary methods to produce dualistic concepts. The degree of reductionism is dependent on the sophistication of the sense and processing organs, e.g., eyes, ears, brain.
Imagery, sensation, triggering automated emotional reactions, are primitive forms of simplifying/generalizing; ideas, ideals, concepts incorporating more than two abstractions, are examples of more sophisticated simplifications/generalizations.
In spatial/temporal contexts – where possibility refers to space and probability to matter/energy, within this field of expanding possibilities – simplification/generalization ignores probabilities it cannot process – incorporate into cohesive mental models, i.e., abstractions – focusing on those that it can; herein “complexity” is a factor the mind interprets as darkness and void, i.e., an incomprehensible absence.

Generalization/Simplification describes a process of reducing the present – interpreted/translated as the apparent, i.e., phenomena – to noetic abstractions; a process of eliminating dimensions to reduce the perceived to a level that can be processed by organic minds.
Space is possibility, according to Heidegger, and matter/energy, and/or any perceived pattern, is probability within this expanding dimensional field of possibilities, ergo simplifying/generalizing implies a reduction of possibilities/probabilities to an organically manageable level. The mind compensates for the loss of data, entailed in this reductive process, by finding patterns within the perceived patterns to incorporate them back into its analysis.
The reduction of spatial dimensions to abstractions is called “knowledge”; the compensating perception of patterns within knowledge, i.e., data/information, is called “understanding”.

A man struggles to encapsulate the fluctuating intricacies of existence with a few phrases and to simplify complexity by reducing it down to a single mathematical equation; whereas a regressive man-child wallows in the chaos, finding comfort in its own inability to fully comprehend, allowing the mystical to creep in as a universal possibility.

Heisman, Mitchell wrote:

While assuming there are exceptions to the generalization that I make, there may be some exceptions to this rule where a generalization really does apply to every single example without exception. But, in general, most generalizations I have encountered possess exceptions, and some more than others. All generalizations are not created equal any more than individuals are; one generalization might be sixty-eight percent accurate, another eighty-three percent.
Generalizing about the various human races is considered audacious by conventional liberal opinion — with one exception. An exception is made if one is really audacious, outrageously audacious enough to go even beyond the various human races and generalize about an entire common human race. Then, everyone can rest easy.

Gross, all-encompassing, generalizations have the benefit of being pleasing to the majority, who are more than willing to quell their misgiving – if and to what degree they are suffered internally – if only they could be incorporated and included into a category they fear they may not entirely belong to.

Considering the mathematical concepts of one (1), and the nil (0), or the word “I”, we recognize conventional simplifying generalizations, used daily and constantly, with great effect, and with no second thoughts concerning their nature and veracity.

There is no concept and/or conception which is not the product of simplification & generalization. Everything that can be perceived is reduced down to a static thing, i.e., an abstraction.

Simplification/Generalization is another way of describing the abstractive process.

Subjective minds are enclosed within their simplifications/generalizations, i.e., abstractions, of an objectively real world. The quality of the mind determining the sophistication of its subjective simplifications/generalizations – simpler minds enclosed within more reductive simplifications and more encompassing generalizations, e.g., instead of races they can only conceptualize a human race – level of species where further discriminatory details are excluded from their abstractions.

Oversimplification implies the reduction of the apparent to a lower grade of complexity than the average mind can process, motivated by the need to find an all-encompassing lowest-common-denominator, i.e., over-generalization motivated by a memetic, e.g., moral, social etc. – or genetic limitation.

Most prefer to see the “forest” and ignore the “trees”. The forest becomes a mass of uniformity, with no perceptible details and no distinguishing markers of differentiation. Oversimplification finds its ideal objective in the impulse to reduce all to a singularity.

Oversimplifications seek the lowest point of possibilities/probabilities to produce a cohesive unity, i.e., an abstraction that incorporates all the perceived into a singular model, e.g., creating a cohesive singular human race, the idealist reduces humanity to an idea, excluding reproductive and/or all apparent naturally evolved divisive identifiers.

The mind simplifies reality by interpreting the totality of interactivities, participating in an emergent presence, viz., reducing them to a few traits, such as colour, mass, form, texture, smell, tone etc. These manifestations of intricate interactions are then integrated – depending on the quality of the mind – into simplified/generalized abstractions, interpreted/translated as the apparent.
The urge to oversimplify/overgeneralize is either a matter of genetic limitations or memetic motives, desiring to ignore as many details as is required to produce uniformity.

What the term oversimplification signifies is not a simplification, per se, but an attempt to go beyond conventional simplifications/generalizations; it describes a position that crosses a median social level, most often towards the lower end of the median cognitive range of a population, i.e., dumbing-down abstractions to make them comprehensible to a majority.