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

CONCRETE (See also:

• LAT

Lat. concretes, participle of concrescere, to grow together)  , a See also:

• TERM

term used in various technical senses with the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general significance of See also:

• COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination, See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction, solidity . Thus the See also:

• BUILDING

building material made up of See also:

• SEPARATE

separate substances combined into one is known as See also:

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

concrete (see below) . In See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics and See also:

• MUSIC

music, the See also:

• ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective has been used as synonymous with " continuous " as opposed to " discrete, " i.e . "separate, " " discontinuous." This See also:

• ANTITHESIS (the Greek for " setting opposite ")

antithesis is no doubt influenced by the • See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that the two words derive from a See also:

• COMMON

common origin, whereas " discrete " is derived from the Latin discernere . In See also:

• LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic and also in common See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language concrete terms are those which signify persons or things as opposed to abstract terms which signify qualities, relations, attributes (so J . S . See also:

• MILL
• MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
• MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
• MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
• MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)

Mill) . Thus the term " See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

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 See also:

• PEOPLE

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 See also:

• BEAR
• BEAR, BLACK
• BEAR, BROWN
• BEAR, GRIZZLY
• BEAR, ISABELLINE
• BEAR, WHITE

bear in common in virtue of their See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

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 See also:

• DENOTATION (from Lat. denotare, to mark out, specify)

DENOTATION), have also an abstract sense when viewed connotatively, i.e. as implying the quality or qualities in See also:

• ISOLATION

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 .