abstraction

• Therefore the individual is the only real being and society a mere abstraction, a name. —  The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg
• Her thoughts had been far removed from the profit of her trade At the bank at Seal Bay," she said hastily, lest her abstraction should be noticed You keep it all--there No." —  The Heart of Unaga
• And the way she breaks things in her abstraction is awful. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05
• In the case of the former, the basis of principle is abstraction--that is to say, one or more suppositions: in that of the second, principles are but the consequences, better or worse, of the methods which may have been followed. —  Evolution, Old ; New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
• Severely and effectively as Berkeley criticised Locke's account of abstract ideas, the fact remains that abstraction is a primary feature of our whole conceptual system; and the abstractable elements of the sensible presentation being the necessary constituents of all ideative representation are properly denominated ideal. —  Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge

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