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n. - A representation of an abstract idea in real or tangible terms.

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  • His friend Kotarbiński formulated a very extreme nominalism, called variously reism, pansomatism, and concretism, according to which the only things that exist are...
  • Although the terminology varies (one can equivalently speak about reism, concretism or nominalism), two claims of any theory going against general (abstract) objects...
  • Schendel's interest in poetry and sparse graphic forms tied her to concretism, just as her manipulation of paper aligned her with Neo-concretism.
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