What is "concretes"

Usage examples of "concretes".

Since he obviously does not, this leads to the curious fact that in spite of the practical nature of their science, political economist* are oddly unable to relate their abstractions to the concretes of actual existence.

These men have been groping blindly for some direction through the bewildering mass of (to them) incomprehensible concretes in the daily life of a complex industrial civilization—groping, struggling, failing, giving up, and perishing, unable to know in what manner they had acted as their own destroyers.

The Newsletter deals with the application of the philosophy of Objectivism to the issues and problems of today’s culture—more specifically, with that intermediary level of intellectual concern which lies between philosophi­cal abstractions and the journalistic concretes of day-by-day existence.

It is able to grasp the perceptual concretes immediately present and it is able to form automatic perceptual associations, but it can go no further.

Every word of man’s language, with the exception of proper names, denotes a concept, an abstraction that stands for an unlimited number of concretes of a specific kind.

The events are the concretes and the particulars, of which the speeches are the abstract summations.

Both hold their consciousness on a subhuman level and method of functioning: Attila’s brain is a jumble of concretes unintegrated by abstractions.

Hume’s conclusions would be the conclusions of a consciousness limited to the perceptual level of awareness, passively reacting to the experience of immediate concretes, with no capacity to form abstractions, to integrate perceptions into concepts, waiting in vain for the appearance of an object labeled “causality” (except that such a consciousness would not be able to draw conclusions).

She told him about how abstract symbols became attached to concretes at the interface between the mental machinery of choo and choi.

They were too bound up in the concretes of life, unable to detach themselves from petty facts.

The display commenced with simple two and three-dimensional representations of concretes and abstracts, and went on to astonishing permutations.