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  • Stumpf claims that a space without qualities is not a form a priori, but like all general concepts, is an abstractum formed through a complex process of abstraction.

    On A Trans-Atlantic Flight 2009

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

    Divine Simplicity Vallicella, William F. 2006

  • 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

  • It may be looked upon as a plurale abstractum, and as such it would indicate the fullness of divine sway and point to God as the Lord of lords.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Erymanthima haec uastificam abiecit beluam, haec e Tartarea tenebrica abstractum plaga40 tricipitem adduxit Hydra generatum canem, haec interemit tortu multiplicabili draconem, auriferam optutu adseruantem arborem. multa alia uictrix nostra lustrauit manus, nec quisquam e nostris spolia cepit laudibus.

    From Sophocles 1912

  • 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

  • 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

  • Who ever confounded _abstractum_ and _concretum_, before that in Field’s field they were made to stand for one?

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

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  • A philosophy term referring to something that is abstract, or exists abstractly. Distinguished from concretum.

    this is another word where I can find the definition at Wiktionary (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abstractum), but it doesn't appear here on Wordnik. cc erinmckean

    November 23, 2020