concretum

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noun

Something that is concrete, rather than abstract.

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Meanings

nounconcretum (plural concreta)

plural concreta

  1. human sciencesSomething that is concrete, rather than abstract.

    There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.

    2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI

Origin

From concrete + -um.

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Chicago

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