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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.
I'm not an abstractionist completely.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.
Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.
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.
The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.
I'm really interested in the nondefinitive element of abstraction.
To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.
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