Timeline for What are the justifications for holding concretes to be more important than abstractions?
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| Oct 11, 2022 at 23:59 | answer | added | armand | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 10, 2022 at 19:01 | answer | added | BillOnne | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Oct 10, 2022 at 13:30 | comment | added | Gordon | You have to climb up and down the tree. This is why Gauss would work on practical problems in the real world. | |
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| Jun 13, 2022 at 7:50 | comment | added | Nikos M. | In a sense truth is specific even if general, there are no abstract (in the sense of non-specific) truths. | |
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| May 13, 2022 at 9:57 | answer | added | Ioannis Paizis | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 13, 2022 at 5:35 | comment | added | Double Knot | From Kristian's hint, your perceived difference between concrete and abstract might only depend on their epistemic modal degrees upon you which has nothing to do with their own reality or importance per se strictly speaking. Do you count your own stated "fact"(Not a proper answer came up yet) as concrete or abstract? If your answer is abstract, then by your own titular logic it's not important at all, so why bother stated it? If your answer is concrete, then this "fact" must be important and very real, however, is it really true?... | |
| May 12, 2022 at 20:50 | comment | added | MIKEY SINGH | Not a proper answer came up yet. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 20:15 | comment | added | causative♦ | Well, say I crumple up a candy wrapper and throw it in the trash. That's a very concrete, actual object. Is that particular crumpled candy wrapper more important than, say, the abstract idea of a circle? I don't think so! So the importance really depends on the specific object. | |
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| May 12, 2022 at 17:07 | history | edited | MIKEY SINGH |
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| May 12, 2022 at 16:57 | comment | added | Double Knot | This is a very general, universal and deep question indeed which everyone has their own criterion for sure... With this said, however, it doesn't mean it has to remain mystic forever. Just stare at the word "real" long and hard, contemplate and meditate, hopefully it will hint you with more relevant ideas... | |
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| May 12, 2022 at 16:36 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | We can have multiple properties or relations of existence, multiple degrees of actuality, iterations of modal structures, etc. So if we have an existential quantifier and an existence predicate, we can quantify over things lacking the predicate, and predicate existence of things we don't quantify over. | |
| May 12, 2022 at 16:31 | comment | added | MIKEY SINGH | @KristianBerry my question is about existent concrete, not about non-existent one. And I'm wondering how come something can be concrete when it isn't in existence? | |
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| May 12, 2022 at 16:14 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | A general statement like, "Unicorns have horns," can be true even if no unicorns exist. By contrast, "This unicorn still has its horn," requires an actually existent unicorn to be true. We might go the Zalta route and talk about an abstract unicorn that encodes having a horn, and this would be the existent referent of the general statement, but why are there abstract unicorns, then, over and above the nonexistent concrete ones? | |
| May 12, 2022 at 16:05 | history | asked | MIKEY SINGH | CC BY-SA 4.0 |