concreta.

facts and descriptions

tangible objects

Jean Piaget

common, proper

countable, collective

to be seen or known

vital to making sense of dialectics

sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch

the combination of many abstractions’

things that can be sensed

the red bricks that built your grade school

or the white-washed ones that rebuilt the church that burned down

concrete objects...concreta...

 

you can't collect a pound of responsibility

or a liter of moral outrage

 

I personally prefer (alliteration) concrete.  abstract concepts like love change meaning with time and circumstances. there's no security.  concrete objects pretty much have the same meaning to you now as they did when you were four: stars. water. music. bricks. they stay pretty much the same. and I think we all like a little sense of security. an exactness.  or at least I do.  concreta.