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    abstraction


    1. three times named and still an abstraction


    2. John Bigelow came to the conclusion that we sleep so that “the nobler part of the soul is united by abstraction to our higher nature and becomes a participant in wisdom and foreknowledge of the gods


    3. I am an abstraction that means nothing


    4. Meredith was, as usual, lost in dreams when supper began that evening, but presently a name pierced his abstraction and brought him back to reality


    5. That fact had seeped through all his abstraction very early in his ministry in Glen St


    6. Abstraction refers to the act of representing essential features without including the background details or


    7. Classes use the concept of abstraction and are defined as a list of abstract attributes such as


    8. Since the classes use the concept of data abstraction, they are known as Abstract Data Types (ADT)


    9. A few lines of meaningless abstraction


    10. In their search for the sublime, says Carol Iannone, an editor at the journal of the National Association of Scholars, modern artists seek to confront a “limitless unknown” abstraction that transcends everyday experience

    11. When art proceeds from a mold of hatred and rejection of the society in which the artist lives, artistic expression tends to become banal soup cans or incomprehensible abstraction


    12. Q: Are you not immersed timelessly in an abstraction?


    13. The body is an abstraction,


    14. concretion and abstraction, the focal and the universal


    15. The whole is an abstraction, the particular, the


    16. If we eliminate the social factor from the child we are left only with an abstraction; if we eliminate the individual


    17. out of a tradition of authorities rather than abstraction from or opposition to a


    18. frozen, and then, seeming to snap out of abstraction at the same


    19. Rescued from his abstraction for the persistency of Duprina’s voice, he dropped:


    20. Minutes later, rescued of the abstraction for the subtle calling of Leonardo pronouncing my name, I turned and found him with his blue eyes

    21. The headmaster had impatiently refused the offer of a chair, preferring to remain standing awkwardly at one side of the room, gazing in bored abstraction through the open windows to where a game of soccer was in progress


    22. conferred by that abstraction called the University-- usually at the hands of


    23. It is a higher-order abstraction whose


    24. of abstraction between the software and the machine


    25. relationship hierarchies and logical levels of abstraction


    26. On this particular day I awoke from what seemed to be sleep, but who knows, it could have been an abstraction, and looking towards the setting sun, I could make out a shimmering herd of various beasts of different kinds, crawling creatures were near my feet, and a small swarm of flying insects pestered my head


    27. She thus takes the abstraction out of learning, and gives it a context


    28. adds unnecessarily to all this abstraction


    29. merely a puzzling and inconvenient abstraction


    30. Any abstract collective is only made up of individuals and only its individuals, not its abstraction, can love each other and others

    31. Weaned into a world promoting figments of our I'mage, our connectivity is a virtual synethesia: a collective perception giving rise to an altered reality inhabited by a consented upon abstraction and integrated with the socially corrected senses


    32. He pulled his cap out of the pocket into which it had been stuffed, and began to put it on, tugging it first over one ear and then over the other in a deep abstraction


    33. Miss Cartwright, to rouse her, for she appeared to have fallen into an abstraction, suggested that perhaps she could give her some clue as to where in Bethnal Green she might most fruitfully search for the payee, and Fanny, after gazing at her a moment collecting her thoughts, gave her the brother--a priest in a cassock, she said; explaining that everyone was sure to know where he lived, because he stood on chairs in the street and preached


    34. As for my not remembering thee,' he went on, putting one arm round the back of my chair, while the other was round the back of Charlotte's, 'be not offended, for I tell thee that the day after I married my Lot here, I fell into so great an abstraction that I started for a walking tour in the Alps with some friends I met, and for an entire week she passed from my mind


    35. 'Don't tell me you have forgotten me again,' I exclaimed anxiously; for his eyes turned from the lake to me as I came over the moss to him in an unchanged abstraction


    36. 'I therefore gave a sigh of satisfaction,' he continued, 'lit my pipe, and, contemplating the evening heavens from the window, happy in the thought of being so near my little wife, I fell into an abstraction


    37. ' For I heard a great clamour on the stairs, and who knows what an agitated wise man may not do, and afterwards pretend he was in an abstraction?


    38. And besides, long before you got to Hiddensee you would have sunk into another abstraction and begun to fish or something, and you'd come back here in the evening with no Charlotte and only fishes


    39. At this meal Herr Dremmel, full of his fertilizers, was mostly in a profound abstraction


    40. Fritzing was the last man wilfully to break local rules or wound susceptibilities; and pulled out of his unpleasant abstraction by the vicar's voice he immediately desisted from continuing his short cut, and coming onto the path removed his hat and apologized with the politeness that was always his so long as nobody was annoying him

    41. child we are left only with an abstraction; if we eliminate the


    42. The Difference between Actuality and Abstraction


    43. Linear abstraction was created from the invention of cutting implements


    44. The first tools ever created; the principle is it based upon is creating linear lines of separation, this is also the basic principle of all linear abstraction


    45. And we prize and cherish this abstract shit over and above all the millions and billions of living trees and plants that we kill every year; why? Because the actual living world is not worth looking at, as much as this boring, unchanging abstraction called an oil painting?


    46. This is why human abstraction is so inhumane


    47. By using the same tools in the same way for millions of years: tools ritualized hominid-human existence into a repetitive, duplicated, preserved pattern, which ultimately evolved into a complex culture… a lifestyle that was based upon abstraction and duplication


    48. The result is what i call: abstraction


    49. It produced an entire array of things that we call by different names, but all are a product of creative abstraction


    50. The products of our creative abstraction: we call ‘culture’














































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    Synonyms for "abstraction"

    abstract entity abstraction abstractedness generalisation generalization abstract reverie rumination musing cogitation absorption idea theory thought concept mock-up hypothesis

    "abstraction" definitions

    a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance


    the act of withdrawing or removing something


    the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances


    an abstract painting


    preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else


    a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples