Meaning & use
Concreta
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Particular, concrete individual things or entities, as opposed to abstract objects or universals (used chiefly in philosophy).
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Metaphysicians distinguish concreta, like this chair, from abstracta, like the number seven.
The debate centers on whether mental states belong to the realm of concreta or abstracta.
A note on using this word
The Latin-derived plural of 'concretum'; it appears almost exclusively in academic metaphysics as the counterpart to 'abstracta'.
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