ABSTRACT
There are philosophers who deny that we ever think of anything universal. Others, perhaps the majority, believe that we sometimes think in universal and sometimes in individual terms. And again, there are those who say that even if we think in an intuitive ( anschaulich ) way, we can still only think in universal terms. This is in direct opposition to the second opinion, because those who advance that view usually maintain that it is precisely our intuitions which are all individual and that only through abstraction from them do we succeed in thinking in a universal way. Berkeley was a famous proponent of the fi rst view, Kant a famous proponent of the second, but the third point of view is undoubtedly the correct one. Neither so-called outer perception, nor what Locke called refl ection and we might call inner perception, provide us with examples of individual intuitions. In the case of inner perception, no one can cite any attribute which individuates the intuition.
