concretum

English

Etymology

From concrete +‎ -um.

Noun

concretum (plural concreta)

1. (philosophy) Something that is concrete, rather than abstract.
   • 2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:

     There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.

Coordinate terms

• abstractum

Related terms

• nomen concretum

Latin

Participle

concrētum

1. inflection of concrētus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “concretum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers