 On the other hand, as Dummett (1973) has noted, in many cases the standard names for paradigmatically abstract objects do not assume the functional form to which the definition adverts. Chess is an abstract entity, but we do not understand the word ‘chess’ as synonymous with an expression of the form ‘\(f(x)\)’, where ‘\(f\)’ is governed by an abstraction principle. Similar remarks would seem to apply to such things as the English language, social justice, architecture, and Charlie Parker’s musical style. If so, the abstractionist approach does not provide a necessary condition for abstractness as that notion is standardly understood.