These processes are thus quintessentially abstractive. From LearnThat.org. [http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/christ/papers/indirect-sensing.html]
abstractive analysis. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Momental areas can evidently be defined as abstractive elements by exactly the same method as applied to solids. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Alternating between abstractive phases and more traditional literal representational phases?. From Wordnik.com. [madrigle Diary Entry] Reference
But the collections of ideas are the product of an abstractive function which is itself arbitrary. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Norris offers an important insight into how the real distinction proof depends on abstractive processes. From Wordnik.com. [Motherly Advice] Reference
They argued infavour of reflexive individualism as against liberal abstractive and possessive individual. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
As an instinctive he is below the level; as an abstractive he attains it; as a specialist he rises above it. From Wordnik.com. [Cosmic Consciousness] Reference
The fact that hypotheses are abstractive demonstrates only that they are incomplete, not that they are false. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
It is important to note that abstractive cognition, in the sense of this theory, has nothing necessarily to do with. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
Instead, what abstractive cognition “abstracts” from is the question of the existence or non-existence of the object. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
Therefore, "the same species that is intuitive in the presence of the object is abstractive in the absence of the object.". From Wordnik.com. [Francis of Marchia] Reference
The correct interpretation of Ockham's theory of intuitive and abstractive cognition is a matter of considerable controversy. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
Both Gandhi and Ambedkar argued infavour of reflexive individualism as against liberal abstractive and possessive individual. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
Call a convergent series of this sort an abstractive class iff it has no bottom, i.e., iff no object is part of every member of the class. From Wordnik.com. [Boundary] Reference
And call two co-convergent abstractive classes equivalent iff every member of the first class has a member of the second as part, and vice versa. From Wordnik.com. [Boundary] Reference
For Gregory, intuitive cognition terminates immediately at the extramental object, but abstractive terminates at the object's species in the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Gregory of Rimini] Reference
Nevertheless, to a first approximation, intuitive cognition can be thought of as perception, whereas abstractive cognition is closer to imagination or remembering. From Wordnik.com. [William of Ockham] Reference
(For instance, an abstractive class of spheres is equivalent to the class of all the cubes inscribed in the spheres, which converge to the same point at the center.). From Wordnik.com. [Boundary] Reference
An abstractive series is a route of approximation. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
I will call such a set of durations an 'abstractive set' of durations. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
When this is the case I shall call the two sets 'equal in abstractive force.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
In such a case I will say that the abstractive set q 'inheres in' the event e. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
We now pass to the investigation of possible connexions between abstractive sets. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
It will be found on consideration (i) that each abstractive set forming a moment is. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
You will remember that in my last lecture I defined the concept of an abstractive set of durations. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Thus, so far as the abstractive sets of events are concerned, an abstractive set converges to nothing. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Instantaneous space must be an assemblage of abstractive elements considered in their mutual relations. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
An 'abstractive element' is the whole group of abstractive sets which are equal to any one of themselves. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
An abstractive set which satisfies this condition is thus an abstractive set composed wholly of durations. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
The locus of intersection of two moments is the assemblage of abstractive elements covered by both of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
It is evident that any two abstractive sets which are equal to a third abstractive set are equal to each other. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Thus all abstractive sets belonging to the same element are equal and converge to the same intrinsic character. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
It is evident that -- with this meaning of σ-- every abstractive set equal to a σ-prime is itself a σ-prime. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
Thus an abstractive set is effectively the entity meant when we consider an instant of time without temporal extension. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
This common intersection is an assemblage of abstractive elements which are each covered (or 'lie in') all four moments. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
This emergence of a definite intrinsic character from an abstractive set is the precise meaning of the law of convergence. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
In other words there are different abstractive sets which are to be regarded as routes of approximation to the same moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
According to my own theory it only differentiates itself from time at a somewhat developed stage of the abstractive process. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
When there is no danger of misunderstanding I shall shorten this phrase by simply saying that the two abstractive sets are 'equal.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
The importance of the equality of abstractive sets arises from the assumption that the intrinsic characters of the two sets are identical. From Wordnik.com. [The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919] Reference
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