in concreto

See also: inconcreto

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in concreto.

Adverb

in concreto (comparative more in concreto, superlative most in concreto)

1. In a concrete sense; concretely.
   • 1781, Immanuel Kant, The Critique on Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press, page 694:

     the sources of cognition on which alone the teacher can draw lie nowhere other than in the essential and genuine principles of reason, and consequently cannot be derived from anywhere else by the student, nor disputed in any way, precisely because reason is here used in concreto though nevertheless a priori, founded, that is, in pure and therefore error-free intuition, and excludes all deception and error

   • 1902, William James, “Lecture II: Circumscription of the Topic”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, pages 31–32:

     Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult.

See also

• Appendix:List of Latin phrases

Anagrams

• concertino, concertion, concretion

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin in concreto.

Adverb

in concreto

1. in concreto

Anagrams

• concertino, concertoni, concretino