Full Idea
A skill arises when from the many cases of thinking in experience a single general assumption is formed in connection with similar things.
Gist of Idea
Skill comes from a general assumption obtained from thinking about similar things
Source
Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], 0981a04)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Metaphysics', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,Hugh [Penguin 1998], p.4
A Reaction
[He gives the administration of appropriate medicine as the example of a 'skill'] Note that it is 'thinking in' experience, rather than just the raw having of experiences. This is the intellectualist version of empirical abstractionism. I like it.