abstract concepts
Things without physicality
Abstract concepts are ideas that exist only in the mind, without physical form or concrete existence—things like justice, freedom, love, time, or beauty.
Unlike objects you can touch or see, abstract concepts must be understood through thought, language, or experience.
Philosophy, mathematics, and ethics deal primarily in abstract concepts.
Children grasp concrete nouns before abstract ones: dog before loyalty.
- zeroNumerical absence of quantity
- identityWho someone is
- collective unconsciousInherited psychological heritage of humanity
- free willAutonomous choice capacity
- ambitionDesire for achievement
anger · essence · the sublime · despair · infinity · time and space · signifier · empathy · inner peace · causality · duality · truth · higher truth · existence · meaning of life · ontology · consciousness · qualia
- categoriestypes, category, kinds, class, classes
- entitiesentity, being, object, thing, item
- realityreality, actuality, existence, being, truth
- Book Knowledgefacts, theory, definitions, formulas, principles
- Schopenhauerwill to live, pessimism, voluntarism, thing-in-itself, suffering