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The method consists in extrapolating from concrete relations those properties which can be directly subsumed under these higher order abstractions .
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She was one of Britain's best-loved painters, whose art moved over six decades from semi-cubism towards pure abstraction .
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Here is a place of pure abstraction and perfection, free of earthly contamination.
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Until now, our generation only knew war as an abstraction .
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Among other things, they remind you that abstraction had its roots in spirituality.
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And yet, we still describe symbols as intellectual abstractions.
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Comprehension of algebra requires formal operations as its content is basically abstractions of abstractions.
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It was then but an intellectual elision to view abstraction as the purest of all styles, since it depicted nothing at all.
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Loyalty to the person of the monarch gave way to allegiance to the abstraction of the state.
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Nowadays, of course, we understand that it was this way of talking about ethical abstractions that made them seem so mysterious.
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Successive abstractions: these define the situation in terms of higher and lower levels of abstraction .
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Such figures are too vast an abstraction .