Structure of Thinking

But, it seems to me rather apparent that some people are property-thinkers and others are object-thinkers, to a greater extent.

Metaphysical questions most frequently yield universe inventories in response.

‘What do we know?’ or ‘What can be known?’, the natural answers to these questions seem to be ‘properties’ or ‘universals’.

united the primitive, natural answers to the metaphysical question by offering a table of elements, together with an account of bonding principles for intermediate composites of elements, plus an account of the relation

The property-attributing capacity of mind is a sorting, qualifying and quantifying capacity, which deals mainly with universals in thinking.

The object-positing capacity of mind is an identifying and recognizing capacity, that deals with particulars in thought.