Some deny Universals, holding that the redness of a particular post box is not an instance of anything, rather just a particular redness (a ‘trope’ or ‘mode’ of that box, not transferable without the box). Not everybody agrees with the above classification. I must say I think it is an empty category (other than in imagination and fiction). Gods, demons and devils would all be in this category. Not detectable by the senses, unless miraculously able to assume sensible form and appear to you. Hence a series of concrete Mental Particulars, or if you think mental activity has to inhere in some immaterial substance, a concrete immaterial Thing. The Angel Gabriel, if he (it?) existed, would be a particular, not abstract, therefore concrete. So, some concrete particulars are indeed, as you say, ‘corporeal sensible things’ (Things), chairs for instance, others are not, being particular events (Andy Murray winning Olympic gold, say). 17 is an instance of the Universal property ‘primeness’. For example, Birmingham’s relation to Gretna Green is as an instance of the Universal relation ‘bigger than’. So, for example, the Universal property ‘redness’ has an instance in a particular post box.Įquivalently, Particulars are instances of Universals. Universals have instances in Particulars. * abstract particulars (eg numbers, propositions). ![]() ![]() * concrete particulars, in turn divided into Things (objects, physical items) and Events (e.g collisions, or my feeling bored, which we can regard as a mental Event or as a mental Thing if you wish). One standard classification of what exists is as follows:Įntities (Existents) comprise Universals and Particulars. Would this be an instance of a ‘Concrete’ thing. I can think of a nonmaterial particular thing such as the Angel Gabriel. Does ‘concrete’ mean a sensible (detectable by the senses) thing, ie a corporeal sensible thing, or only a ‘particular’ thing. Regarding the term ‘Concrete’ as opposed to ‘Abstract’.
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