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- verb Present participle of
abstract .
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If you could show it's a negative, that would be a persuasive criticism of social-democracy, abstracting from the dynamics of movement across income levels.
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Certainly it didn't come in a manual, he/she is abstracting from the dialogue and the angles of the camera.
I'd Rather Let The Flowers Keep Doing What They Do Best SVGL 2009
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Because in abstracting to a level at which a satisfactory explanation can be achieved, for many they seem to unfortunately move out of the realm of being testable.
Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009
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In abstracting from the morphology of our bas-relief towards a Grand Unified Morphology with a cardinal morphological form as Prime Cause, they seek an articulation of the ground as a figure in its own right, the frame as form, not a sub-class of Being but a class of NonBeing, something beyond reality itself.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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In abstracting from the morphology of our bas-relief towards a Grand Unified Morphology with a cardinal morphological form as Prime Cause, they seek an articulation of the ground as a figure in its own right, the frame as form, not a sub-class of Being but a class of NonBeing, something beyond reality itself.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007
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And now we say that it is real, for in abstracting out of reality we have reached perfection, and perfection requires reality.
Archive 2007-04-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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And now we say that it is real, for in abstracting out of reality we have reached perfection, and perfection requires reality.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART FOUR Hal Duncan 2007
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This is called abstracting the universal idea from the phantasmata, but the term must not be taken in a matrialistic sense.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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