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.
Gist of Idea
We reach concepts by clarification, or by definition, or by habitual experience
Source
H.H. Price (Review of Aron 'Our Knowledge of Universals' [1946], p.190)
Book Reference
-: 'Philosophy' [-], 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.