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18. Thought / D. Concepts / 2. Origin of Concepts / a. Origin of concepts

10645	We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience [Price,HH]
	Full Idea: We have three different ways in which we arrive at concepts or universals: there is a clarification, where we have a ready-made concept and define it; we have a combination (where a definition creates a concept); and an experience can lead to a habit.
	From: H.H. Price (Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals' [1946], p.190)
	A reaction: [very compressed] He cites Russell as calling the third one a 'condensed induction'. There seems to an intellectualist and non-intellectualist strand in the abstractionist tradition.