Editing Abstract and concrete (section)

===Quasi-abstract entities<!--'Quasi-abstract' redirects here-->===
In the 2010s, there was some philosophical interest in the development of a third category of objects known as the '''quasi-abstract'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA-->. Quasi-abstract objects have drawn particular attention in the area of [[social ontology]] and [[documentality]]. Some argue that the over-adherence to the [[Platonism|platonist]] duality of the concrete and the abstract has led to a large category of social objects having been overlooked or rejected as [[Nonexistent object|nonexistent]] because they exhibit characteristics that the traditional duality between concrete and abstract regards as incompatible.<ref>B. Smith (2008), "Searle and De Soto: The New Ontology of the Social World". In ''The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality''. Open Court.</ref> Specifically, the ability to have temporal location, but not spatial location, and have causal agency (if only by acting through representatives).<ref>{{cite journal |first1=E. H. |last1=Robinson |url=http://www.edwardheath.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Social_Agentivity.pdf |title=A Theory of Social Agentivity and Its Integration into the Descriptive Ontology for Linguistic and Cognitive Engineering |journal=[[International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems]] |volume=7 |issue=4 |date=2011 |pages=62–86 |doi=10.4018/ijswis.2011100103 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810075924/http://www.edwardheath.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Social_Agentivity.pdf |archive-date= Aug 10, 2017 }}</ref> These characteristics are exhibited by a number of social objects, including states of the international legal system.<ref>E. H. Robinson (2014), "A Documentary Theory of States and Their Existence as Quasi-Abstract Entities", ''Geopolitics'' '''19''' (3), pp. 1–29.</ref>