Concept
Abstract and concrete
Overview
classifications that denote whether a term describes an object with a physical referent or one with no physical referents
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Abstract and concrete
- Epicurus
- David Malet Armstrong
- Edward N. Zalta
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Alexius Meinong
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Hilary Putnam
- Giovanni Gentile
- Edmund Husserl
- Jonathan Schaffer
- Nathan Salmón
- Julius Bahnsen
- Leonardo Polo
Related ideas
- Empiricism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Philosophy
- Immanuel Kant
- Type–token distinction
- Idea
- Peter van Inwagen
- Paradigm
- Metaphysics
- Number
- Platonism
- Ontology
- Planet
- Plato
- Philosophy of religion
- Particular
- Problem of universals
- Physicalism
- Edward N. Zalta
- Theory of forms
- Set (mathematics)
- Semantics
- Theism
- William Lane Craig
Opposing perspectives
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.