abstractumn.
/əbˈstraktəm/, U.S. /əbˈstræktəm/, /æbˈstræktəm/ Philosophy.
An abstract entity or property; esp. an abstract term; = abstract n. 1.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Abstract Abstractum, in Philosophy, that which is separated from some other thing, by an Operation of the Mind called Abstraction.
1809 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 324/1 Criticks..metamorphose in their heads all the concreta of the Poet into abstracta.
1868 N. Porter Human Intellect iv. viii. 650 The infinite, etc., may stand for the infinitude, the unconditionedness, the absoluteness of some being—i.e., as an abstractum or property of a being.
1942 Mind 51 247 The common man would probably hold that the abstracta in all or at any rate in most of these senses are somehow or other ‘unreal’.
1960 R. D. Laing Divided Self i. 17 Psyche and soma, psychological and physical, personality, the self, the organism. All these terms are abstracta.
2003 D. Willard tr. E. Husserl Philos. Arithm. iv. 82 If we understand by ‘concept’ the abstractum underlying the name, then we actually do have here an identity of the respective concepts.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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