Yet the fact that there is a distance and difference between concrete existence and philosophic abstraction does not guarantee the applicability of notions that derive their appeal from a rejection of all intellectual abstractions in favor of some anti-rational alleged «intuition.» (religion-online.org)
Whitehead has called this «the fallacy of misplaced concreteness,» the tendency to attribute concrete existence only to one particular set of abstractions, or to use one type of analysis to the exclusion of other modes of description. (religion-online.org)
The distant God is at the same time the God near at hand, Whose reality is not to be grasped when a man seeks to escape from his own concrete existence, but precisely when he holds it fast. (religion-online.org)