Language gets in the way is what Nominalists might say I have read and enjoyed two books that have been recommended on this channel - War of the Elites aaaaand Bubbles 1 Great content John 👍
The ability to abstract concepts from our sensory input is a core feature of the mind and/or brain, likely due to evolving pattern recognition. As you pointed out, we see a bunch of particulars that have a similar shape, and are then able to abstract just the shared shape of those particulars into a subjective concept and give a name to that subjectively constructed concept. Since most humans share broadly similarly equipped brains, many of our subjectively constructed concepts will be so similar that we can use language to communicate about them intelligibly.
Language gets in the way is what Nominalists might say
I have read and enjoyed two books that have been recommended on this channel - War of the Elites aaaaand Bubbles 1
Great content John 👍
The ability to abstract concepts from our sensory input is a core feature of the mind and/or brain, likely due to evolving pattern recognition. As you pointed out, we see a bunch of particulars that have a similar shape, and are then able to abstract just the shared shape of those particulars into a subjective concept and give a name to that subjectively constructed concept. Since most humans share broadly similarly equipped brains, many of our subjectively constructed concepts will be so similar that we can use language to communicate about them intelligibly.