Truly confused. You say:
it is both
particular and *an
individual*, hence occupying some space and time.
But an individual as a noun refers to a person. I think you want to say that:
it is both
particular and
individual, hence occupying some space and time.
Then you expand on this and compound the confusion with:
So, to say that something is concrete is to say that it is a particular *individual* that is located at a particular place and time.
Are only individuals, i.e. people, concrete? I always thought my PC was concrete. I guess I had better look at it. An abstract PC will be little help in disputing this definition. Please clarify.
'Individuals' (as in P. F. Strawson's book by the title) in philosophical jargon refer not just to individual human beings but to any individual (numerically singular) thing.
A beautiful pun one of my profs made, completely unintentionally:
Sometimes being concrete actually makes things harder. We need a place to put information about sidewalk-stuff, too.
:-) Hopefully, we'll be able to start disambiguating words with parentheses; then I'll direct you to [concrete (metaphysics)]
?, I suppose.
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