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CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 835 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COM-COR
CONCRETE (Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together) , a
term
  used in various technical senses with the general significance of combination, conjunction, solidity. Thus the building material made up of
separate
  substances combined into one is known as concrete (see below). In
mathematics
  and music, the
adjective
  has been used as synonymous with " continuous " as opposed to " discrete, " i.e. "
separate
 , " " discontinuous." This
antithesis
  is no doubt influenced by the
idea
  that the two words derive from a common origin, whereas " discrete " is derived from the Latin discernere. In logic and also in common language concrete terms are those which signify persons or things as opposed to abstract terms which signify qualities, relations, attributes (so J. S. Mill). Thus the
term
  " man " is concrete, while " manhood " and " humanity " are abstract, the names of the qualities implied. Confusions between abstract and concrete terms are frequent; thus the word " relation," which is strictly an abstract term implying connexion between two things or persons, is often used instead of the correct term " relative " for
people
  related to one another. Concrete terms are further subdivided as Singular, the names of things regarded as individuals, and General or Common, the names which a number of things
bear
  in common in virtue of their possession of common characteristics. These latter terms, though concrete in so far as they denote the persons or things which are known by them (see DENOTATION), have also an abstract sense when viewed connotatively, i.e. as implying the quality or qualities in
isolation
  from the individuals. The ascription of adjectives to the class of concrete terms, upheld by J. S. Mill, has been disputed on the ground that adjectives are applied both to concrete and to abstract terms. Hence some logicians make a separate class for adjectives, as being the names neither of things nor of qualities, and describe them as Attributive terms.


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