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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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