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Ideas of Jonathan Barnes, by Text

[British, b.1942, At Balliol College, Oxford, for many years.]

1993 Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics
n to 97b7 p.249 Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities
n to 97b7 p.249 Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature
n to 97b7 p.249 Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same