Ideas of Jonathan Barnes, by Theme

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

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18. Thought / E. Abstraction / 8. Abstractionism Critique

9074	Abstraction cannot produce the concept of a 'game', as there is no one common feature

9073	Abstraction from an ambiguous concept like 'mole' will define them as the same

9072	Defining concepts by abstractions will collect together far too many attributes from entities