释义 |
‖ abstractum Philos.|æbˈstræktəm| Usu. in pl. -ta. [mod.L., neut. of L. abstractus abstract ppl. a.] = abstract n. 3.
[1620Bacon Instauratio Magna ii. bk. i. §51, p. 63 Intellectus humanus fertur ad abstracta propter naturam propriam.] 1865Farrar Lang. 69 In this sense all words are Abstracta. 1865J. H. Stirling Secret of Hegel II. iii. ii. 136 Such despairing contemplation is a result of our occupying only the abstractum of the Ansichseyn. 1868N. Porter Hum. Intell. iv. viii. 650 The infinite, etc., may stand for the infinitude, the unconditionedness, the absoluteness of some being—i.e., as an abstractum or property of a being. Ibid. 651 If they [sc. the terms] are used only in the sense of abstracta, then the question..is, Can they be conceived by the mind? 1932G. D. Hicks Berkeley 159 The abstracta in question failed to satisfy this test. 1942Mind LI. 247 The common man would probably hold that the abstracta in all or at any rate in most of these senses are somehow or other ‘unreal’. |