The process of regarding something abstract as a material entity, Whitehead's "fallacy of misplaced concreteness," e.g., the mistake of confusing a system, which is a construct, with the physical entity described in its terms. Here is a model of an atom that we are familiar with. It is an abstraction.What is a real atom? It is not a object at all but a society of various energies in motion.
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