10 ideas
23651 | Universals are not objects of sense and cannot be imagined - but can be conceived [Reid] |
23650 | Only individuals exist [Reid] |
23649 | No one thinks two sheets possess a single whiteness, but all agree they are both white [Reid] |
11874 | Real identity admits of no degrees [Reid] |
23652 | We must first conceive things before we can consider them [Reid] |
5963 | Some say emotion is a sort of reason, and others say virtue concerns emotion [Plutarch] |
10645 | We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience [Price,HH] |
23648 | First we notice and name attributes ('abstracting'); then we notice that subjects share them ('generalising') [Reid] |
10644 | A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction [Price,HH] |
10646 | Our understanding of 'dog' or 'house' arises from a repeated experience of concomitances [Price,HH] |