9569 | The origin of geometry started in sensation, then moved to calculation, and then to reason [Proclus] |
10503 | We abstract forms from appearances, and acquire knowledge of immaterial things [Aquinas] |
10509 | Understanding consists entirely of grasping abstracted species [Aquinas] |
5827 | A species of thing is an abstract idea, and a word is a sign that refers to the idea [Locke] |
23648 | First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid] |
6925 | The new philosophy thinks of the concrete in a concrete (not a abstract) manner [Feuerbach] |
9078 | The study of the nature of Abstract Ideas does not belong to logic, but to a different science [Mill] |
9080 | General conceptions are a necessary preliminary to Induction [Mill] |
9846 | Defining 'direction' by parallelism doesn't tell you whether direction is a line [Dummett on Frege] |
9030 | Abstractions can be interpreted dispositionally, as the ability to recognise or imagine an item [Price,HH] |
9029 | If ideas have to be images, then abstract ideas become a paradoxical problem [Price,HH] |
11102 | Apply '-ness' or 'class of' to abstract general terms, to get second-level abstract singular terms [Quine] |
17664 | Each subject has an appropriate level of abstraction [Armstrong] |
9873 | Abstract terms are acceptable as long as we know how they function linguistically [Dummett] |
10839 | You can't infer a dog's abstract concepts from its behaviour [Dummett] |
9086 | The idea of abstract objects is not ontological; it comes from the epistemological idea of abstraction [Plantinga] |
9087 | Theists may see abstract objects as really divine thoughts [Plantinga] |
8901 | Abstraction is usually explained either by example, or conflation, or abstraction, or negatively [Lewis] |
9144 | Fine's 'procedural postulationism' uses creative definitions, but avoids abstract ontology [Fine,K, by Cook/Ebert] |
8299 | Abstractions are non-spatial, or dependent, or derived from concepts [Lowe] |
9609 | The older sense of 'abstract' is where 'redness' or 'group' is abstracted from particulars [Brown,JR] |
9611 | 'Abstract' nowadays means outside space and time, not concrete, not physical [Brown,JR] |