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 Maarten Maartensz:    Philosophical Dictionary | Filosofisch Woordenboek                      

 C - Concrete

 

Concrete: What is specific, individual, particular, not general; what is not abstract.

The concrete is usually opposed to the abstract. Incidentally, it is misleading to insist that the concrete is 'given in experience', since so is the abstract, but it generally makes sense to say that what is given by the senses is concrete and particular.

The whole opposition of abstract vs. concrete seems to be a fairly late - 18th or early 19th Century - distinction.
 


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 Original: Mar 10, 2005                                                Last edited: 12 December 2011.   Top