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  • noun philosophy Something that is concrete, rather than abstract.

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concrete +‎ -um

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Examples

  • More precisely, a basic concretum is a concrete object that has no concrete object prior to it:

    Monism Schaffer, Jonathan 2007

  • 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.

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • To identify an unexemplifiable concretum with an exemplifiable abstractum would amount to an ontological category-mistake.

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • But these joint effects are naturally construed as effects of two concrete objects acting jointly, or perhaps as effects of their mereological aggregate (itself a paradigm concretum), rather than as effects of some set-theoretic construction.

    Abstract Objects Rosen, Gideon 2001

  • Indirectly this Spanish ritual, by speaking of "hoc vas concretum generibus metallorum", proves that from an early date a combination of metals was used in founding bells.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Post quam insulam terra nulla invenitur habitabilis in illo oceano, sed omnia quæ ultra sunt glacie intolerabili ac caligine immensa plena sunt; cujus rei Marcianus ita meminit: ultra Thyle, inquiens, navigare unius diei mare concretum est.

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

  • 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.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • It is the tenet of the school, that though in God _concretum_ and _abstractum_ differ not, because _Deus_ and

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • Moreover, since the concretum receives the attribute, the attribute is either learning itself, which is clearly not demonstrable of every concrete instance of a human being, since some human beings may fail to realize their capacity to learn, or merely the ability to learn, which is not an actual occurrent constituting part of a real fact about the world as it is, but, as Albert insisted, merely a kind of possibility of an occurent thing.

    Medieval Theories of Demonstration Longeway, John 2005

  • LEforis coagulum iribm obolis ex utno, uenenatoru rnor - fibm, cceliacts, dyfentericis, £r fcemtnis fluxwne uulux U borantibm, ac reieVtionibm a feElgre, auxiliatur: fangume m grumos concretum difutit.

    Pedanii Dioscoridis Anazarbei De medicinali materia libri sex Dioscórides , Dioscorides Pedanius , Joannes Ruellius 1550

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