Abstraction - Ontological status

An abstraction is an idea, concept, or word which defines the phenomena that make up its referents (those concrete events or things to which the abstraction refers). Abstraction - Thought process. In philosophical terminology abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a strategy of simplification of detail, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined; thus speaking of things in the abstract demands that the listener have ...

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• Abstraction - Thought process
• Abstraction - Conceptual schemes for abstraction
• Abstraction - Referents
• Abstraction - Instantiation
• Abstraction - Physicality
• Abstraction - Realness
• Abstraction - Precise semantic meaning
• Abstraction - Abstraction used in philosophy
• Abstraction - Ontological status
• Abstraction - Reification
• Abstraction - Compression
• Abstraction - The neurology of abstraction
• Abstraction - Abstraction in Art

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Abstractions sometimes have ambiguous referents; for example, "happiness" (when used as an abstraction) can refer to many things as there are people and events or states of being which make them happy. A further example; suppose one attempts to define the term architecture and what it refers to. Architecture is more than simply designing safe functional buildings, it also involves elements of creation and innovation which aim at elegant solutions to problems of construction, the use of space, and at its best, to evoke an emotional response in the builders, owners, viewers and users of the building. See also:

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In philosophical terminology abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects. Abstraction uses a strategy of simplification of detail, wherein formerly concrete details are left ambiguous, vague, or undefined; thus speaking of things in the abstract demands that the listener have an intuitive or common experience with the speaker, if the speaker expects to be understood (as in picture 1, to the right). For example, many different things have the property of redness: l ...

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Abstraction, Abstraction - Thought process, Abstraction - Conceptual schemes for abstraction, Abstraction - Referents, Abstraction - Instantiation, Abstraction - Physicality, Abstraction - Realness, Abstraction - Precise semantic meaning, Abstraction - Abstraction used in philosophy, Abstraction - Ontological status, Abstraction - Reification, Abstraction - Compression, Abstraction - The neurology of abstraction, Abstraction - Abstraction in Art

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Abstraction in philosophy is the (oft-alleged) process, in concept-formation, of recognizing some common feature among a number of individuals, and on that basis forming the concept of that feature. The notion of abstraction is important to understanding some philosophical controversies surrounding empiricism and the problem of universals. It has also recently become popular in formal logic under predicate abstraction.< ...

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Abstraction, Abstraction - Thought process, Abstraction - Conceptual schemes for abstraction, Abstraction - Referents, Abstraction - Instantiation, Abstraction - Physicality, Abstraction - Realness, Abstraction - Precise semantic meaning, Abstraction - Abstraction used in philosophy, Abstraction - Ontological status, Abstraction - Reification, Abstraction - Compression, Abstraction - The neurology of abstraction, Abstraction - Abstraction in Art

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Most typically abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym of Abstract art in general. It can, however, refer to any object or image which has been distilled from the real world, or indeed another work. Artist Robert Stark wrote,"Ten years after abandoning formal landscape painting to explore the more direct act of freely applying paint to a surface without a representational motive, I have developed a new vocabulary; light and dark, warm and cool, making marks, brush-strokes like heart-rhythms. Every day is a test of each pai ...

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Abstraction, Abstraction - Thought process, Abstraction - Conceptual schemes for abstraction, Abstraction - Referents, Abstraction - Instantiation, Abstraction - Physicality, Abstraction - Realness, Abstraction - Precise semantic meaning, Abstraction - Abstraction used in philosophy, Abstraction - Ontological status, Abstraction - Reification, Abstraction - Compression, Abstraction - The neurology of abstraction, Abstraction - Abstraction in Art

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