By assuming that enduring objects are the most real and fundamental things in the universe, materialists have mistaken the abstract for the concrete (what Whitehead calls the "fallacy of misplaced concreteness").
Ved at antage af vedvarende genstande er de mest virkelige og fundamentale ting i universet har materialister forvekslet det abstrakte og det konkrete, hvilket Whitehead kalder "fallacy of misplaced concreteness").