Single Idea 10644

[catalogued under 18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 2. Abstracta by Selection]

Full Idea

A 'felt familiarity' with universals seems to be more primitive than explicit abstraction.

Gist of Idea

A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction

Source

H.H. Price (Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals' [1946], p.188)

Book Reference

-: 'Philosophy' [-], p.188


A Reaction

This I take to be part of the 'given' of the abstractionist view, which is quite well described in the first instance by Aristotle. Price says that it is 'pre-verbal'.