It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction. From LearnThat.org. [Doris Lessing]
Taking this sort of thing to abstraction is their job. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause and Life Without Parole for Under-18 (Nonhomicide) Offenders] Reference
Every level of abstraction is accurate, new, useful, and nonobvious. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
The abstraction is The Owl, which, after No. 1006 (it began at No. 1001), ceases to be. From Wordnik.com. [Echoes of the Week] Reference
Actually, I think escape from abstraction is one of the attractions of Mexico, especially data and management abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Freedom in Mexico] Reference
To Emma, who thinks only of social roles, Frank's abstraction is inexplicable; it is, indeed, not abstraction, but performing badly. From Wordnik.com. [Leaving Box Hill: Emma and Theatricality] Reference
These principles are called abstraction principles. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
It is the thing called abstraction or academic logic. From Wordnik.com. [What I Saw in America] Reference
The students without exception were working in abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [A Glance At The Future] Reference
The specifics are different but the abstraction is the same. From Wordnik.com. [Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English] Reference
The Stepanov test measures the so-called abstraction penalty of C++. From Wordnik.com. [Dr.Dobb's - All Articles] Reference
Thus it is France, or an abstraction, which is to raise the French, or. From Wordnik.com. [Essays on Political Economy] Reference
The abstraction was a cheat and a lie manufactured in the priestly mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Jacket (Star-Rover)] Reference
You don’t have to be trained in abstraction to be intelligent and sociable. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Kristof Gets Education Mostly Right, Slights Importance of Poverty] Reference
The end of his abstraction was the resolution to slay his captive then and there. From Wordnik.com. [Footprints in the Forest] Reference
You know our abstraction is a common jest and proverb: you must laugh me out of it. From Wordnik.com. [Eugene Aram — Complete] Reference
The abstraction itself is the engagement; the abstraction is the engagement even for engineers. From Wordnik.com. [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference
If I hit the Chairman over the nose in a fit of abstraction, that is a very simple relationship. From Wordnik.com. [Fr. McNabb Speaks - Capitalism and Communism/1] Reference
This process is known as abstraction, from the Latin abstrahere, which is literally "to drag out.". From Wordnik.com. [John Duns Scotus] Reference
In both, an act of abstraction, that is, an act of extraction of what is significant, takes place. From Wordnik.com. [2009 February 25 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
Russell also refers to this method as “abstraction”, now known as the abstraction of an equivalence class. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Constructions] Reference
He rose and paced the chamber with agitated steps; sometimes he stopped, and gazed on the pavement, fixed in abstraction. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6 - Part V] Reference
The concept is, on the contrary, unity extracted from plurality by means of abstraction, which is an act of our intellect. From Wordnik.com. [Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic] Reference
I think there’s a relationship between abstraction and data, abstraction is the process by which you manage the data here. From Wordnik.com. [CS Principles « Beki's Blog (there's an original name)] Reference
But Locke applies the notion of abstraction to cases which go beyond the mere omission of particular spatiotemporal determinations. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Lastly, scientific imagination is nothing without a high development of the capacity for abstraction, which is a matter of slow growth. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
The interface may sound nice, but the abstraction is a bit too much when the interaction between data and its representation increases. From Wordnik.com. [KDE TechBase - Recent changes [en]] Reference
How did we get so mired in abstraction?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Brown victory party featured flag calling for a ‘second’ revolution, tea party-inspired civil war.] Reference
Dionne labeled the Constitution an "abstraction" preoccupying the GOP. From Wordnik.com. [The Constitution: Not Just for Courts] Reference
How do you deal with learning tasks such as abstraction and generalization?. From Wordnik.com. [Ce n'est pas un monde virtuel] Reference
It was only a kind of abstraction, an 'I wasn't conscious that it was the national anthim, so I wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady of the Ice A Novel] Reference
Since there is a standard for thread design the same thread "abstraction" can be used seamlessly many ways. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptationism] Reference
Then she decided to take the Tchaikowsky/Petipa "Sleeping Beauty" story and do an "abstraction" of the same tale. From Wordnik.com. [San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival B] Reference
What role does the body play in styles that would seem to obfuscate or obliterate its presence (such as abstraction)?. From Wordnik.com. [Crossroads of Philosophy and Cultural Studies: Body, Context, Performativity, Community] Reference
The illustration doesn't really scream anything; it has the worst of both "abstraction" and "implausible detail" to it. From Wordnik.com. [Book Cover Smackdown! The Reality Dysfunction vs. Heretics vs. The Kragen] Reference
I don't think there's anything inherently dangerous in abstraction, or idealism which is what you seem to mean by "abstraction". From Wordnik.com. [Let's take a closer look at Ron Paul.] Reference
Shakespeare certainly has many moments of "abstraction" or. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
The captain gazed at us in a kind of abstraction as we passed. From Wordnik.com. [An Enemy to the King] Reference
The separation means only an abstraction, but it is an abstraction which is justified and suggested by the actual experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Psychotherapy] Reference
So - it's like trying to discuss whether the concept (/ word) 'abstraction' has any counterpart in the world around us. the d.o.m. From Wordnik.com. Reference
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