abstrac

Ez I've said, it's this yer blamed abstrac 'business that makes the young uns cut up in the Concord; an' abstrac 'or no abstrac', he crep 'on an' on till he come to killin 'plain an' straight -- killin 'them as never done him no harm, jest beca'se they owned horses. "

The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

Mat - ter qua matter was unintelligible at the level of abstrac - tion of that of which it is the matter (e.g., bone is not itself an anthropological concept), but its own formal properties might be investigated at a more elementary level (e.g., in physiology or medicine).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

This combination of “abstrac - tion” and illumination is to be found in a number of

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

Accordingly, we should not expect to find anything like a doctrine of abstrac - tion in Plato's writings.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

The principal difference which Descartes makes between abstraction and exclusion is that, in the case of abstrac - tion we consider one thing without considering that from which abstraction has been made and so may not be aware that abstraction has rendered a concept in - adequate, whereas in distinguishing one thing from another, we must keep both clearly before us.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

But the application of Galileo's principles of abstrac - tion and idealization shows that this is not so: the inequality arises not from some basic principle but from the fact that all machines are imperfect: they distort under load and they suffer from friction.

TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968

However, the structure can also be stud - ied by itself by going past the “threshold of abstrac - tion” (F. Gonseth), without regard for the more concrete interpretations.

AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

There is, therefore, no distortion or falsification in the result of abstraction, because abstrac -

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968

By this we mean that, on the whole, the Greeks only formed abstractions of the first order, that is ide - alizations, whereas mathematics demands also abstrac - tions of higher order, that is abstractions from abstrac - tions, abstractions from abstractions from abstractions, etc.

INFINITY SALOMON BOCHNER 1968

Ockham uses the term “abstrac - tion” and provides a number of meanings for it, but he departs from his predecessors on one very important point: he denies that we can think as separate what is incapable of existing separately in reality.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JULIUS WEINBERG 1968