I gave an example earlier: "dog"RCSaunders wrote: ↑Mon Jun 21, 2021 1:41 am I still don't know what you are getting at. I don't know what you mean by a generalization, and I don't know what you mean by an abstraction. Perhaps you could give examples. I can suggest some, but I'm only be guessing.
And I explained that all concepts, all universals/types/kinds are abstractions. (Universals, types and kinds are more or less different terms for the same thing (they're not exactly the same, necessarily, but for our present purposes they're close enough).) So any property that we attribute to more than one particular, for example, is an abstraction. I even gave you a definition of what abstraction is (although not as detailed of a definition as what I'm about to give): abstraction is the process of glossing over particular differences, noting resemblances (not identical occurrences), at least per one's perception and perspective, and formulating a type or universal that can apply to multiple particulars--a type or universal or kind such as "dog," or "leg," or "fur" or anything like that.
Generalizations are a particular sort of abstraction, in the form of a proposition (which itself is going to apply abstractions such as property terms, concepts, universal/type/kind terms, etc.): For example, "All dogs are descendants of wolves."