Adjective : an abstract idea. ,abstract science. ,abstract speculations. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to abstract the notions of time, space, and matter. From Dictionary.com.
"I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist," he says. From Wordnik.com. [Slavoj Žižek: interview] Reference
But empire can be described empirically (which is not quite synonymous with "abstractly"). From Wordnik.com. [Insurgent American] Reference
We shouldn't think of these things too abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [evolver Diary Entry] Reference
This was reasonable enough, abstractly considered. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
They did their fighting abstractly, and in private. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
More abstractly perhaps, though, let ` s look at it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 10, 2008] Reference
Do you also use photographs even when you're painting abstractly?. From Wordnik.com. [David Coggins: Full Frontal: An Interview With Les Rogers] Reference
Humans need to think, they can't live without thinking abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
So long as he can continue to talk abstractly about "investing in growth". From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
Horizontal bands of blue abstractly represent a backdrop of water and sky. From Wordnik.com. [At MoMA, A Look At A Pivotal Moment For Matisse] Reference
One finds but a single champion of the married state considered abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Certainly that's something people have known about abstractly for quite some time. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2003] Reference
That is learning about things abstractly from a distance, through a real removed medium. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Sam Crawford, October 26, 1985. Interview K-0006. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
For the fact that you are a human who thinks abstractly and that you see beyond the mundane. From Wordnik.com. [nisayon Diary Entry] Reference
People who abstractly revere the truth have never been able to tell anything but falsehoods. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
The term 'kinematic' is used when motion is considered abstractly without reference to force or mass. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Indeed if you take democracy abstractly - which none of us really in our heart of hearts do - why not?. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
It is a claim abstractly defensible, and the just assertion of it is the basis of all rights over others. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
If a man should attempt to build a beaver's dam, he would abstractly consider all these elements of fitness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
All this I know abstractly, but it is just one of the bits of information tucked away in memory's storehouse. From Wordnik.com. [Five Lectures on Blindness] Reference
The participants spoke abstractly about the need to restore "honor" and "pride" to a country that had lost it. From Wordnik.com. [Chase Whiteside: Interviews with Participants at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally (VIDEO)] Reference
But then there's the jump: "" The ground, abstractly picturesque from on high, got hard-looking and particular. From Wordnik.com. [He's In The Army Now] Reference
On the doctrines of magistracy and toleration, abstractly considered, they have manifested commendable fidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
When we live alone or live in isolation and try to deal with things abstractly or theoretically we make mistakes. From Wordnik.com. [Address by Honorable Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior at Conference of Regional Chairmen of the Highway Transport Committee Council of National Defense] Reference
Peace, abstractly, would be good for the region of course, and it's natural to think that problems have solutions. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2002] Reference
This is represented abstractly, and is not perceived, though of course unconscious perception cannot be ruled out. From Wordnik.com. [April Pierce: Synesthesia and Metaphor: Between Fact and Fiction (VIDEO)] Reference
What is more, he was always interested in them, not abstractly and in the mass, but concretely and in the individual. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt and His Times] Reference
SCHAUBLE (through translator): We're not just abstractly -- not just in an abstract way a part of this worldwide area. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 5, 2007] Reference
The Jews being clever enough to be able to think abstractly use a symbolic scapegoat; the Christians and Muslims used the Jews. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Later, of course, when the gods retreated into the background of human life, retributive justice was conceived more abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
They don't refer to other vervets as "siblings" or "enemies," or communicate abstractly about concepts like friendship or danger. From Wordnik.com. [What Do Monkeys Know?] Reference
They sort of dealt with relationships, but taking them abstractly -- making the divine human, the fantastic believable, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [bard Diary Entry] Reference
Indeed, broken as was their speech and limited as was their knowledge, they reasoned abstractly on their rights as well as white men. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861] Reference
Blood was creeping into his arm, and he knew abstractly that he was going to be in agony very soon as the nerves flooded back to life. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
The following example will serve to explain, to start with, what we mean by saying that mathematics has hitherto been used abstractly. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
But as you say, the assumption that one can reason abstractly without knowledge is philosophical nonsense and should be condemned as such. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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