| 9088 | Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things [Aristotle] |
| 16153 | Aristotle distinguishes two different sorts of generality - kinds, and properties [Aristotle, by Frede,M] |
| 9068 | Perception creates primitive immediate principles by building a series of firm concepts [Aristotle] |
| 9069 | A perception lodging in the soul creates a primitive universal, which becomes generalised [Aristotle] |
| 18911 | Linguistic terms form a hierarchy, with higher terms predicable of increasing numbers of things [Aristotle, by Engelbretsen] |
| 9093 | We understand the general nature of things by ignoring individual peculiarities [Aquinas] |
| 9097 | The mind abstracts generalities from images, but also uses images for understanding [Aquinas] |
| 9095 | Very general ideas (being, oneness, potentiality) can be abstracted from thought matter in general [Aquinas] |
| 9099 | Particular instances come first, and (pace Plato) generalisations are abstracted from them [Aquinas] |
| 10508 | Species are abstracted from appearances by ignoring individual conditions [Aquinas] |
| 12126 | People love (unfortunately) extreme generality, rather than particular knowledge [Bacon] |
| 10501 | A triangle diagram is about all triangles, if some features are ignored [Arnauld,A/Nicole,P] |
| 9083 | The mind creates abstractions by generalising about appearances of objects, ignoring time or place [Locke] |
| 7040 | General words represent general ideas, which are abstractions from immediate circumstances [Locke] |
| 12951 | Abstraction attends to the general, not the particular, and involves universal truths [Leibniz] |
| 19760 | General ideas are purely intellectual; imagining them is immediately particular [Rousseau] |
| 19759 | Only words can introduce general ideas into the mind [Rousseau] |
| 19242 | Generalization is the true end of life [Peirce] |
| 19255 | Generalisation is the great law of mind [Peirce] |
| 18310 | The 'highest' concepts are the most general and empty concepts [Nietzsche] |
| 21569 | It is good to generalise truths as much as possible [Russell] |
| 10732 | If concepts are just recognitional, then general judgements would be impossible [Geach] |
| 18375 | General truths are a type of negative truth, saying there are no more ravens than black ones [Armstrong] |
| 19169 | Predicates are a source of generality in sentences [Davidson] |
| 15301 | The very concepts of a particular power or nature imply the possibility of being generalised [Harré/Madden] |
| 9330 | Generalization seems to be more fundamental to minds than spotting similarities [Lehrer] |
| 18266 | Mathematics generalises by using variables [Coffa] |
| 9152 | If green is abstracted from a thing, it is only seen as a type if it is common to many things [Fine,K] |
| 18504 | Only particulars exist, and generality is our mode of presentation [Heil] |
| 17696 | 'Humility is a virtue' has an abstract noun, but 'water is a liquid' has a generic concrete noun [Laycock] |
| 17937 | Mathematical generalisation is by extending a system, or by abstracting away from it [Colyvan] |