Monday, September 1, 2008

Misplaced Concreteness

Mistakenly supposing that something is a concrete object with independent existence, when it's not.

Example:

There are two footballs lying on the floor of an otherwise empty room. When asked to count all the objects in the room, John says there are three: the two balls plus the group of two.
John mistakenly supposed a group or set of concrete objects is also a concrete object.

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