ONTOLOGY OF THE ABSTRACT: PROPOSAL FOR CONCEPTUAL REFORMULATION BASED ON A STRUCTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF LANGUAGE

Abstract

This manifesto proposes a profound reform in the philosophical understanding of the concept of the abstract. It challenges traditional metaphysical assumptions that oppose abstraction to concreteness, suggesting a new ontological foundation based on the inseparability between language, cognition, and reality. By reconstructing the semantic roots of the term “abstract,” the article aims to reveal how linguistic conventions have historically veiled operative structures of meaning, imposing dualisms that hinder ontological clarity. The work dialogues with classical and contemporary thinkers and sets the stage for a renewed epistemological approach in which abstraction emerges not as detachment, but as a dimension of synthesis, integration, and constructive convergence with the real.