单词 | concrete number |
释义 | > as lemmasconcrete number a. Applied by the early logicians and grammarians to a quality viewed (as it is actually found) concreted or adherent to a substance, and so to the word expressing a quality so considered, viz. the adjective, in contradistinction to the quality as mentally abstracted or withdrawn from substance and expressed by an abstract noun: thus white (paper, hat, horse) is the concrete quality or quality in the concrete, whiteness, the abstract quality or quality in the abstract; seven (men, days, etc.) is a concrete number, as opposed to the number 7 in the abstract. concrete science (science n. 4b).Afterwards concrete was extended also to substantives involving attributes, as fool, sage, hero, and has finally been applied by some grammarians to all substantives not abstract, i.e. all those denoting ‘things’ as distinguished from qualities, states, and actions. The logical and grammatical uses have thus tended to fall asunder and even to become contradictory; some writers on Logic therefore disuse the term concrete entirely: see quot. 1887. In this Dictionary, concrete is prefixed to those senses in which substantives originally abstract come to be used as names of ‘things’; e.g. crossing verbal noun, i.e. abstract noun of action, concrete a crossing in a street, on a railway, etc.From an early period used as a quasi-n., a concrete (sc. term). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > term of a proposition > [adjective] > relating to other types of terms concrete?1499 adequate1615 reflexive1903 aliorelative1915 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > noun > [adjective] > concrete concrete?1499 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 118 b Turnyng awry, that is to say: From the Concreto to the Abstractum (to use here the termes of Sophistry).] < as lemmas |
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