Reflective abstraction, however, is based not on individual actions but on coordinated actions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first type of abstraction from objects I shall refer to as simple abstraction, but the second type I shall call reflective abstraction, using this term in a double sense.
I'm not an abstractionist completely.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Abstraction is a mental process we use when trying to discern what is essential or relevant to a problem; it does not require a belief in abstract entities.
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.
What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essential moments absolutely as it is given to pure reflection.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.