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endoself comments on What do professional philosophers believe, and why? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: endoself 05 May 2013 07:25:21PM 0 points [-]

I don't think I've been clear. I'm saying that the categories of abstract and concrete objects are themselves generated by experience and are intended to reflect natural categories, and that it's not useful to think about what abstraction is without thinking about particular abstract objects and what makes us consider them abstract.