VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – CONCRETE

CONCRETE (concresco, to grow together), is opposed to abstract.

A concrete notion is the notion of an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities. An abstract notion, on the contrary, is the notion of some quality or attribute deprived of all the specialities with which experience invests it, or separated from the object to which it belongs, or from other attributes with which in actuality it is always associated.— V. ABSTRACT, TERM.