Terms like "sustained abstractionism," moreover, scarcely help.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Buttons] Reference

Why then would fictionalism be preferred to abstractionism, or vice versa?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

Free traders were accused of abstractionism; in the words of one book at the time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ian Fletcher: America Aping Britain's Historic Decline Through Free Trade] Reference

(Rosen 1990 p 328-9 mentions this as a motivation for fictionalism against abstractionism.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

One way in which Berkeley's anti-abstractionism comes into play is in reinforcing this point.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Berkeley] Reference

Finally, a modal fictionalist might reject abstractionism because he rejects the associated ontology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

Another naturalist objection might be directed against situational abstractionism, apart from its commitment to non-obtaining states of affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [States of Affairs] Reference

Aristotelian answers anticipated only one side of the medieval discussions: the mundane, philosophical theory of universals, in terms of Aristotelian abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Medieval Problem of Universals] Reference

Famously, the two main options in the metaphysics of modality are David Lewis '(so-called extreme) modal realism, and ersatzism (or actualism, or abstractionism) in its various forms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Worlds] Reference

In discussing interpretations of Tender Buttons, Thomson might have added Hoffman's view that the book is a series of "still lifes" in which by design she produces a work of sustained abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Buttons] Reference

One reason that might be offered for preferring modal fictionalism to some form of abstractionism is that abstractionism faces a battery of well-known objections, levelled against it by Lewis 1986, chapter 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

Nor would abstractionism face the technical challenges that fictionalism faces, since all the merely possible worlds would in fact exist; there would be no problem of switching back and forth between fictional and literal discourse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

If the chairman of the department, however, should confine himself to the modern movements such as cubism, surrealism, abstractionism and all the rest and to regard as outdated and of no consequence the work of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Raphael, Da.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

That limitation may well have been one of the reasons why nineteenth century art led toward into surrealism, abstractionism, and all the other “non-representationalist” forms, as part of an effort on the part of the artists to engage their viewers beyond the image itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Words? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website] Reference

His paintings were exhibited in Pittsburgh as early as 1927 and again in 1931 at the Museum of Modern Art. But Nazi rule (which deemed his art degenerate), World War II and postwar abstractionism relegated Dix to the background, and unlike Max Beckmann and George Grosz — the Berlin painter with whom he is often linked — Dix did not immigrate to the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sex, Blood and War] Reference

It is in this charge that the vicious abstractionism becomes most apparent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

Pragmatism saves us at any rate from such diseased abstractionism as those pages show.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

The genres Brooks executes include abstractionism, cubism and realism. velezgalleries. com.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colorado Springs Independent] Reference

It almost reconciles one to being no logician that one thereby escapes so much abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

"I found this very instructive in informing me on where to go in terms of geometric abstractionism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Rising] Reference

I am only trying to illustrate vicious abstractionism by the conduct of some of the doctrine's assailants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

But, in one way or the other, I hope you will join in the great strategic combination against the forces of rationalism and bad abstractionism!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Letters of William James III] Reference

I have sincerely tried to follow the windings of his mind in this procedure, but for the life of me I can only see in it another example of what I have called (above, p. 249) vicious abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meaning of Truth] Reference

A major collection of his paintings and drawings from the holdings of the late Swiss gallery owner Ernst Beyeler, on exhibit at the Orangerie Museum, revealed the many guises of his inspired abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kansas City Star: Front Page] Reference

Immediately after his residency in Cite Internationale des Arts in Paris, up-and-coming artist Wu Tung-lung (吳東龍) presents several of his latest oil paintings that demonstrate his interest in expressing inner experiences through abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

In speaking of the movement away from his early training and work to that of abstractionism, Berlyn says, "After a while when working with color, no matter what form you are working within, the knowledge that is stored in your brain can be transferred from one style to the next.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Buffalo Rising] Reference

Although often placed under various umbrellas of art movements – abstract expressionism, lyrical abstractionism, feminism – Joan Snyder’s work has never been easily categorized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joan Snyder: Statement] Reference

However, if it could be carried out, it would be clear that in one respect at least ” the respect of ontology ” the fictionalist would have a theory with definite advantages over abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modal Fictionalism] Reference

While Dutton doesn’t spring all the aesthetic prisoners of postmodern thought, he does liberate many — or at least make the idea of a jailbreak from abstractionism seem both cogent and exhilarating.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cover to Cover] Reference

Call this situational abstractionism.    From Wordnik.com.  [States of Affairs] Reference

Resolutely oppose abstractionism!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference