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Concreteness and Abstractness

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Considering these four points, we can say that concreteness is the transcendental property of being relative not only to certain abstracts, but also to certain concretes-both concretes—both to some concretes that are required by an utterly specific or definite necessity and to yet other concretes that are required by only a more or less generic or indefinite necessity. Abstractness, by contrast, is the transcendental property of being relative to concretes, if thus relative at all, solely to some concretes or other, which are required by only a more or less generic or indefinite necessity. 

Alternatively, abstractness may be understood simply as the transcendental property of being an object and only an object, whereas concreteness may be understood as the transcendental property of being an object that is also a subject, whether individual or event. Although objects do indeed require subjects, they require them by only a more or less generic or indefinite necessity, whereas subjects, by contrast, require objects, concretes as well as abstracts, by an utterly specific or definite necessity.

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