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Well, what's the difference in terms of logical character between the apprehension within the senses of a form such as a lamp, and your abstract conception of the concrete form of said lamp? Well, only the intensity of the apprehension. Other than that they're logically indistinguishable from one another as discriminate substances. Indeed, that's how we differentiate between thought and sensible experiences: the vividness.

So, while consciousness may not be a direct subsequent consequence of memory, it is the case that abstract thought very much is a function of memory systems. So, there's no difference in type or quality between abstract and concrete objects, the distinction is one of intensity.