abstractum
nounUK /əbˈstɹæktəm/ · US /æbˈstɹæktəm/
Etymology Borrowed from Latin abstractum, neuter of abstractus (“drawn away”). Doublet of abstract.
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Human sciences, Philosophy, Sciences Plural normally Something which is abstract or exists abstractly.
- There are quite familiar and truly outstanding liabilities—ontological, epistemological, and phenomenological—associated with saying that merely intentional objects are abstracta, or mental concreta, or non-existent non-mental concreta.2008 August 5, Uriah Kriegel, “The dispensability of (merely) intentional objects”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 1, →DOI:
- Coordinate terms
- concretum