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concrete 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 the adjective, in contradistinction to the quality as mentally abstracted or withdrawn from substance and expressed by an abstract noun: thus white (paper, hat, horse) is the concrete quality or quality in the concrete, whiteness, the abstract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).
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concrete?1499
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reflexive1903
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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).]
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bivv A false abstracte cometh from a fals concrete.1594 T. Blundeville Exercises i. xvi. f. 19 Vnderstand, that of numbers some are said to be abstract, and some concreate.1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 117 To expresse them by Abstracts from the Concret of their qualitie..As Maiestie, Highnes, Grace.1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd Explic. sig. A4v The concrete signifies the same form with those qualities which adhere to the subject: The concrete is the Adjective.1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iii. viii. 230 Our simple Ideas have all abstract, as well as concrete Names: The one whereof is (to speak the Language of Grammarians) a Substantive, the other an Adjective; as Whiteness, White.1725 I. Watts Logick i. iv. §5 Concrete terms, while they express the quality, do also either express, or imply, or refer to some subject to which it belongs..But these are not always noun adjectives..a fool, a knave, a philosopher, and many other concretes are substantives.1846 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic (ed. 2) i. ii. §4 A concrete name is a name which stands for a thing; an abstract name is a name which stands for an attribute of a thing.1854 H. Spencer in Brit. Q. Rev. July 148 Let us observe how the relatively concrete science of geometrical astronomy, having been thus far helped forward by the development of geometry in general, reacted upon geometry, caused it also to advance, and was again assisted by it.1860 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica (ed. 2) v. 144 This is the real distinction indicated by the use of concrete or abstract terms.1864 F. C. Bowen Logic (1870) iv. 88 The peculiar or proper appellation of a lower Concept or individual is called its concrete name.1865 J. S. Mill Auguste Comte 33 The concrete sciences..concern themselves only with the particular combinations of phaenomena which are found in existence.1876 C. P. Mason Eng. Gram. (ed. 21) §35 Abstract nouns are sometimes used in the concrete sense..Thus nobility frequently means the whole body of persons of noble birth.1876 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic (1880) 21 The reader should carefully observe that adjectives are concrete, not abstract.1887 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic (ed. 9) i. i. 15 Nothing has been said above of the common distinction between abstract and concrete terms..I have availed myself of the expression ‘abstract term’, but avoided, as too wide to be of practical service, the contrasted expression ‘concrete term’. Concrete terms include what I have called attributives, as well as singular, collective, and common terms.
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