The phrase "a concrete world" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a tangible, physical reality or environment, often in contrast to abstract concepts or ideas.
Example: "In a concrete world filled with challenges, we must find practical solutions to our problems."
Alternatives: "a tangible reality" or "a physical environment".
Many of the associations we make emerge from the fact that we live inside bodies, in a concrete world, and we tend to think in metaphors grounded in that embodiment.
What I mean is that the author is the sum of the expressive strategies that shape an invented world, a concrete world that is populated with people and events.
As we've seen, on Lewis's account, to exist in a concrete world w is literally to exist in w, that is, within the spatiotemporal boundaries of w.
A rather different set of intuitions about situations is that they are abstract entities of a certain sort: They are states or conditions, of varying detail and complexity, that a concrete world could be in — they are ways that things, as a whole, could be.[26] Thus, returning to our original example, one very simple way things could be is for our philosopher Anne to be in her office.
A massive concrete World War II relic known as the Bunker now houses contemporary art from the private collection of Christian and Karen Boros, who bought the bunker in 2003 and turned it into a showcase.
It deals with spiritual matters in a concrete, physical world; a world where invariably the worst of human nature is revealed".
Those studies typically request that stressed subjects declare their preference (e.g., which is more "beautiful"?) for either a forested landscape or the concrete world of an urban downtown.
Abstraction is to take a distance from the concrete world.
The meanings they identify are (ibid: 47): Abstraction is to take a distance from the concrete world.
But this novel also continues a steady move away from the concrete world of places and events toward the human interior.
It is simply to say that it is not, in fact, a condition, or state, that the concrete world is actually in.
