prescind

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That a thing should be really perceived by my senses, and at the same time not really exist, is to me a plain contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, the existence of a sensible thing from its being perceived.

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  1. transitive verb To separate or divide in thought; consider individually.
  2. intransitive verb To withdraw one's attention.

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  • That a thing should be really perceived by my senses, and at the same time not really exist, is to me a plain contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, the existence of a sensible thing from its being perceived. —  Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
  • In the global era, economic activity cannot prescind from gratuitousness, which fosters and disseminates solidarity and responsibility for justice and the common good among the different economic players. —  P2P Foundation
  • Pundits seem to find it difficult to prescind from the destitute circumstances in the predicament of a poor Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. —  Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage
  • 10 to the 190th that Dawkins contrived to avoid, for you cannot prescind the "survival part" from the total probability calculation: -) Bravo! —  MercatorNet
 

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  1. Latin praescindere, to cut off in front : prae-, pre- + scindere, to cut off, split; see skei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Old French prescinder = Spanish Portuguese prescindir = lt. prescindere, from . L. præscindere, cut off in front, from præ, before, + scindere, slit, cleave: see scission.
 

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