Full Idea
A 'felt familiarity' with universals seems to be more primitive than explicit abstraction.
Gist of Idea
A 'felt familiarity' with universals is more primitive than abstraction
Source
H.H. Price (Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals' [1946], p.188)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophy' [-], p.188
A Reaction
This I take to be part of the 'given' of the abstractionist view, which is quite well described in the first instance by Aristotle. Price says that it is 'pre-verbal'.