from the point of view of the evolution of perception, I'm not sure that
"the particular" is processed by similar ciruitry to "the general", and so I
don't think the two concepts are closely related. I don't feel that a
'particular' is,as it were, chosen from a general class of things. I think
that, whilst the assumption of the probabilities of 'thingness' in the world
around us is quite primitive, the general classes of things (doggishness of
dog) are much more recent concepts.
cheers
Peter Lennox
Hardwick House
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