Britons believe two-thirds of their country has been concreted over when in fact less than one-tenth of England is urbanised – and half this is green space such as gardens.
So Banham, with his weakness for feeble wordplay, linked brutality with concrete, even though there had been concrete structures since the Romans, most of them pacific.
To prosecutors, Officer Valle had "crossed the line" as he exchanged messages with three co-conspirators on the Web site and also took what prosecutors told the jury had been "concrete steps" to further his plot.
On Linsky and Zalta's view, there is a nonconcrete individual that could have been concrete and, had it been concrete, it would have been parented by Portman and Bush.
That object is only contingently nonconcrete; it could have been concrete, and had it been concrete, it would have exemplified the property of being my brother (along with the other properties that it encodes and the necessary consequences thereof).
Linsky and Zalta argue that while abstract objects are necessarily abstract, there are objects which are not concrete but could have been concrete.
Mayara Longo Vivian, a leader of the Free Fare Movement, said there had been "concrete measures" among the president's proposals and that the "fight would continue".
On this view, my possible brother (as well as any alleged merely possible object) actually exists, just as a nonconcrete individual that could have been concrete.
Thus, the intuition that there could have been something that does not actually exist is understood as the claim that there are non-concrete things that could have been concrete: ∃x ¬C!x ∧ ◇C!x).
