What is Abstraction?
- Abstraction as generality:
- Distinguishing the general from the particular in the world of ideas.
- We can have a general idea of water apart from specific ideas of
water, e.g. Lake Superior, or my dripping faucet.
- Abstraction as universality:
- An abstraction is that which is shared by individual instances.
- For example, justice, as an abstraction, is that which is
shared by all just acts.