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Single Idea 9088
[filed under theme 15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 5. Generalisation by mind
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Full Idea
A skill arises when from the many cases of thinking in experience a single general assumption is formed in connection with similar things.
Gist of Idea
Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a04)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.4
A Reaction
[He gives the administration of appropriate medicine as the example of a 'skill'] Note that it is 'thinking in' experience, rather than just the raw having of experiences. This is the intellectualist version of empirical abstractionism. I like it.
The
32 ideas
with the same theme
[uniting similarities in reality into single propositions]:
9088
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Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things
[Aristotle]
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16153
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Aristotle distinguishes two different sorts of generality - kinds, and properties
[Aristotle, by Frede,M]
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9068
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Perception creates primitive immediate principles by building a series of firm concepts
[Aristotle]
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9069
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A perception lodging in the soul creates a primitive universal, which becomes generalised
[Aristotle]
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18911
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Linguistic terms form a hierarchy, with higher terms predicable of increasing numbers of things
[Aristotle, by Engelbretsen]
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9093
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We understand the general nature of things by ignoring individual peculiarities
[Aquinas]
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9095
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Very general ideas (being, oneness, potentiality) can be abstracted from thought matter in general
[Aquinas]
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9097
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The mind abstracts generalities from images, but also uses images for understanding
[Aquinas]
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9099
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Particular instances come first, and (pace Plato) generalisations are abstracted from them
[Aquinas]
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10508
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Species are abstracted from appearances by ignoring individual conditions
[Aquinas]
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12126
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People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge
[Bacon]
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10501
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A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored
[Arnauld,A/Nicole,P]
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9083
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The mind creates abstractions by generalising about appearances of objects, ignoring time or place
[Locke]
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7040
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General words represent general ideas, which are abstractions from immediate circumstances
[Locke]
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12951
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Abstraction attends to the general, not the particular, and involves universal truths
[Leibniz]
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19759
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Only words can introduce general ideas into the mind
[Rousseau]
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19760
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General ideas are purely intellectual; imagining them is immediately particular
[Rousseau]
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19242
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Generalization is the true end of life
[Peirce]
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19255
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Generalisation is the great law of mind
[Peirce]
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18310
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The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts
[Nietzsche]
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21569
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It is good to generalise truths as much as possible
[Russell]
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24210
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Abstraction is just the character of generalisation
[Weil]
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10732
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If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible
[Geach]
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18375
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General truths are a type of negative truth, saying there are no more ravens than black ones
[Armstrong]
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19169
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Predicates are a source of generality in sentences
[Davidson]
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15301
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The very concepts of a particular power or nature imply the possibility of being generalised
[Harré/Madden]
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9330
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Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities
[Lehrer]
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18266
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Mathematics generalises by using variables
[Coffa]
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9152
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If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things
[Fine,K]
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18504
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Only particulars exist, and generality is our mode of presentation
[Heil]
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17696
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'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun
[Laycock]
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17937
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Mathematical generalisation is by extending a system, or by abstracting away from it
[Colyvan]
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