Full Idea
The categories of concrete and abstract seem crude and inappropriate for modern physics.
Gist of Idea
Concrete and abstract are too crude for modern physics
Source
J Ladyman / D Ross (Every Thing Must Go [2007], 3.6)
Book Reference
Ladyman,J/Ross,D: 'Every Thing Must Go' [OUP 2007], p.160
A Reaction
They don't persuade me of this idea. At some point physicists need to decide the ontological status of the basic stuffs they are investigating. I'll give them a thousand years, and then I want an answer. Do they only deal in 'ideal' entities?