Full Idea
Universals are valuable because they make the explanations plain.
Gist of Idea
Universals are valuable because they make the explanations plain
Source
Aristotle (Posterior Analytics [c.327 BCE], 88a06)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Posterior Analytics (2nd ed)', ed/tr. Barnes,Jonathan [OUP 1993], p.43
A Reaction
Everything in Aristotle comes back to human capacity to understand. There seems to be an ideal explanation consisting entirely of particulars, but humans are not equipped to grasp it. We think in a broad brush way.