Drawing the Abstract/Concrete Line
Four ways of drawing the line, by causal power, location, mind dependence, and abstraction
Planned, not yet written
This rung already has its place in the Ontology ladder and a fixed job in the order. The prose is what is missing. Writing it out of sequence would break the guarantee that nothing here uses a term before an earlier article defines it.
Will definecausal criterionspatiotemporal criterionmind-dependence criterionabstraction criterion
Assumesobjectpropertycategory of beingabstract objectconcrete objectspatiotemporal location