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'.