To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature. (Alfred North Whitehead)

To be an abstraction does not mean that an entity is nothing. It merely means that its existence is only a factor of a more concrete element of nature.

Alfred North Whitehead

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