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Stumpf claims that a space without qualities is not a form a priori, but like all general concepts, is an abstractum formed through a complex process of abstraction.
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To identify an unexemplifiable concretum with an exemplifiable abstractum would amount to an ontological category-mistake.
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The latter is a presumably a state of affairs, an abstract object, and no concretum can be identical with an abstractum on pain of violating the separateness of the concrete and abstract realms.
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It may be looked upon as a plurale abstractum, and as such it would indicate the fullness of divine sway and point to God as the Lord of lords.
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Erymanthima haec uastificam abiecit beluam, haec e Tartarea tenebrica abstractum plaga40 tricipitem adduxit Hydra generatum canem, haec interemit tortu multiplicabili draconem, auriferam optutu adseruantem arborem. multa alia uictrix nostra lustrauit manus, nec quisquam e nostris spolia cepit laudibus.
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It is the tenet of the school, that though in God _concretum_ and _abstractum_ differ not, because _Deus_ and
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For _concretum_ signifieth _aliquid completum subsistens_, and _abstractum_ (such as humanity) signifieth (732) something, _non ut subsistens, sed in quo aliquid est_, as whiteness doth not signify that thing which is white, but that whereby it is white.
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Who ever confounded _abstractum_ and _concretum_, before that in Field’s field they were made to stand for one?
ry commented on the word abstractum
A philosophy term referring to something that is abstract, or exists abstractly. Distinguished from concretum.
this is another word where I can find the definition at Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstractum), but it doesn't appear here on Wordnik. cc erinmckean
November 23, 2020