XII Purpose of Generalisation--Objects
classified must be similar and have similar
utilities--Inferiority of general
ideas acquired by definition--Names not essential to
general thought--Generalisation resembles composite
photography--Classification on mere objective
resemblance--neat but superficial--Conceptualism 38
XIII MATTER the most general notion derived
from Objects--Belief in Real Matter a form of Mysticism--A
material basis for phenomena unnecessary 43
XIV NOMINALISM--Berkeley's Nominalism, and
objections thereto--Concrete Thought expressed in general
terms 46
XV Generalisation the bane of European
philosophy--Plato's theories on General Ideas--Aristotle's
'Essence'--Classification a means, not the end of Reason--The
explanatory Unity a unity of service--Evolution a concrete
Platonism 58