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It is worth commenting on the fact that, the rubric "concretism" notwithstanding, the notion of concreteness is not actually part of the definition of a world.
According to the new actualist, these contingently nonconcrete objects have been overlooked because (1) no one has correctly drawn the proper distinction between contingently nonconcrete and necessarily nonconcrete objects, and (2) everyone has assumed that concreteness was an essential property of concrete objects (see below).
(This view carries a commitment to the claim that a concrete object becomes nonconcrete and that a nonconcrete object becomes concrete, which is even more problematic than the claim that concreteness is a contingent property).
A weighty report published on Thursday January 15th is sure to play a crucial role in shaping the agenda.The Group of Thirty's "Financial Reform: A Framework for Financial Stability" is important both because of the concreteness of its 18 recommendations and because of who was involved.
The source of this innovation was a movement known as Gutai (meaning something like concreteness).
"Deliciously paradoxically, the Nobel could end up diminishing, not fortifying, the qualifications-blindness and self-enslavement to equations-led dictums that, fifth-columnist style, pave the path for our sacrifice at the altar of misplaced concreteness ".Arguably, all this focus on derivatives and risk models ultimately misses the point.
In the treatises, discourses, and philosophical argumentation of the great writers of the Enlightenment, such as Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau, they frequently resort to the first person singular, which results in a vivid concreteness in the treatment of ideas.
In the allegories some of his greatest imaginative successes are due to his dreamlike, introspective style with its subtle personal music; but it is the workaday vigour and concreteness of the prose technique practiced in the sermons which provide a firm stylistic background to these imaginative flights.
If criticism is in dialectical relationship with the art it studies, and analytic understanding is a kind of negation of the object understood, as Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel thought, then the abiding problem of art criticism is to restore the art object to concreteness and particularity.
Environmental art, in common with collage and assemblage, has tended toward greater concreteness not by making a more realistic representation, as naturalistic art does, but by including more of reality itself in the work; for example, by using casts taken from the actual human body, real clothes, actual objects and casts of objects, actual lighting effects, and real items of furniture.
(Hence, Aristotle believed poetry is more general than history, since its concreteness is not that of real events, but rather of imaginary episodes constructed so as to typify human destiny in exemplary form).
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The primary grammatical function of "concreteness" is as a noun , representing a quality or state. As Ludwig AI explains, it denotes the state of being concrete, contrasting with abstractness. It frequently appears as the subject or object of verbs, describing the degree to which something is tangible or specific.
Expression frequency: Very common
