The book is a monographic study of a logical and methodological nature, devoted to the analysis of a little-studied question .. It considers types of generalizations: analytical and synthetic, relevant and irrelevant, statistical and approximate, generalizations based on the abstraction of identification, on definitions through abstraction, on the principle of limitations, etc. The book attempts to apply the methods and ideas of modern logic to the process of generalization. introduced the concept of type, of great importance 8 methodology of socialization; The relationship between scientific and artistic generalization ; is considered. The author discusses the difficulties of practical application of theories of large generality, with abstractions of high orders and idealizations.