PPT Slide
Ancient & Medieval Philosophy -- David L. Rouse
- The difference between a universal conception and a particular conception is as follows.
“The conception associated with a universal name is an image that is general and indiscriminate, whereas the image associated with a singular word represents the proper and characteristic form, as it were, of a single thing, i.e. it applies to one and only one person.”
- We form universal conceptions by abstraction.