Abstract and Concrete.
Philosophical usage of "abstract" to mean "not located in space and time" is (1) an overextension of the ordinary meaning which encourages conflating platonic realism about universals with conceptualism about universals, since (2) "abstract" in its ordinary use is quite appropriate to the traditiona...
| Publicado en: | Humanities Bulletin Vol. 2; no. 1; pp. 50 - 61 |
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London Academic Publishing Ltd.
May2019
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