Single Idea 9929

[catalogued under 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 7. Abstract/Concrete / a. Abstract/concrete]

Full Idea

Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden'.

Gist of Idea

Much of what science says about concrete entities is 'abstraction-laden'

Source

JP Burgess / G Rosen (A Subject with No Object [1997], III.A.1.d)

Book Reference

Burgess,J/Rosen,G: 'A Subject with No Object' [OUP 1997], p.179


A Reaction

Not just science. In ordinary conversation we continually refer to particulars using so-called 'universal' predicates and object-terms, which are presumably abstractions. 'I've just seen an elephant'.