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" An abstraction " is the product of this process – a concept that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts, and connects any related concepts as a group, field, or category.
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The artist, unlike the philosopher, is not a removed observer aiming at neutral and rarified high levels of abstraction.
he is questioning, also, every epistemology which stems from Hume's presupposition that experience is merely sense data in abstraction from causal efficacy, and that causal efficacy is something intellectually imputed to the world, not directly perceived.
What Hume calls `` sensation '' is what Whitehead calls `` perception in the mode of presentational immediacy '' which is a sophisticated abstraction from perception in the mode of causal efficacy.
In Plato's mind there is an irresolvable conflict between the poet and the philosopher, because the poet imitates only particular objects and is incapable of rising to the first level of abstraction, much less the highest level of ideal forms.
The New York mind is two parts abstraction and one part misinformation about the rest of the country and in fact the world.
" His system, however, is based primarily on such terminology as the different " orders of abstraction ," and formulations such as " consciousness of abstracting.
Developmental psychology has since established that the distinction of animate vs. inanimate things is an abstraction acquired by learning.
His foundational work on algebraic geometry is at a higher level of abstraction than all prior versions.
The notion of abstract data types is related to the concept of data abstraction, important in object-oriented programming and design by contract methodologies for software development.
In philosophical terminology, abstraction is the thought process wherein ideas are distanced from objects.
Although the description sitting-on ( graph 1 ) is more abstract than the graphic image of a cat sitting on a mat ( picture 1 ), the delineation of abstract things from concrete things is somewhat ambiguous ; this ambiguity or vagueness is characteristic of abstraction.
In this sense the process of abstraction entails the identification of similarities between objects and the process of associating these objects with an abstraction ( which is itself an object ).
A commonly considered abstraction is the phoneme, which abstracts speech sounds in such a way as to neglect details that cannot serve to differentiate meaning.
The main disadvantage of abstraction is that highly abstract concepts are more difficult to learn, and require a degree of mathematical maturity and experience before they can be assimilated.
The opposite of abstraction is concretism.
Typically, abstraction is used in the arts as a synonym for abstract art in general.
Artwork that reshapes the natural world for expressive purposes is called abstract ; that which derives from, but does not imitate a recognizable subject is called nonobjective abstraction.
abstraction and product
For some elementary operations, such as multiplication, such an abstraction does not lose any precision: to get the sign of a product, it is sufficient to know the sign of the operands.
In addition to its familiar geometric structure, with isomorphisms that are isometries with respect to the usual inner product, the plane may be viewed at various other levels of abstraction.
This Pure Knowing is simply Knowing as Such, and as such, has for its first thought product Being as Such, i. e., the purest abstraction from all that is ( although, importantly, not distinct from, or alongside, all that is ), having " no diversity within itself nor with any reference outwards.
The basic model for the focus ( or product abstraction ) remains constant.
Extrapolating the mind into a non-physical, non-sensory world of abstraction is only a product of imagination.
abstraction and process
An abstraction can be seen as a process of mapping multiple different pieces of constituent data to a single piece of abstract data based on similarities in the constituent data, for example many different physical cats map to the abstraction " CAT ".
Carl Jung's definition of abstraction broadened its scope beyond the thinking process to include exactly four mutually exclusive, different complementary psychological functions: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking.
Together they form a structural totality of the differentiating abstraction process.
* Reification, a reverse process to abstraction
The reverse process, by which just part of an existing definition is used itself as a new definition, is called abstraction ; the new definition is called an abstraction and it is said to have been the existing definition.
By the late 1960s however, postminimalism, process art and Arte Povera also emerged as revolutionary concepts and movements that encompassed both painting and sculpture, via lyrical abstraction and the postminimalist movement, and in early conceptual art.
The continuation of abstract expressionism, color field painting, lyrical abstraction, geometric abstraction, minimalism, abstract illusionism, process art, pop art, postminimalism, and other late 20th-century modernist movements in both painting and sculpture continue through the first decade of the 21st century and constitute radical new directions in those mediums.
Human perception occurs by a complex, unconscious process of abstraction, in which certain details of the incoming sense data are noticed and remembered, and the rest forgotten.
The process metaphysics elaborated in Process and Reality posits an ontology which is based on the two kinds of existence of entity, that of actual entity and that of abstract entity or abstraction.
A process VM provides a high-level abstraction — that of a high-level programming language ( compared to the low-level ISA abstraction of the system VM ).
According to Fakhry, this represents a change from Plato's theory of Ideas, where ideas precede particulars, to Aristotle's theory where particulars come first and the essence is " arrived at by a process of abstraction.
It is this process of abstraction that contributes to the ability of theories to transcend commonsense explanation.
In computer science, abstraction is the process by which data and programs are defined with a representation similar in form to its meaning ( semantics ), while hiding away the implementation details.
An example of this abstraction process is the generational development of programming languages from the machine language to the assembly language and the high-level language.
This is a control abstraction ; a processor that executes NOP will behave identically to a processor that does not process this directive.
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His epistemology can be regarded as primitive materialist empiricism ; he believed that human cognition ought to be based on one's perceptions – one's sensory experiences, such as sight and hearing – instead of imagination or internal logic, elements founded on the human capacity for abstraction.
The papers grouped under the category " The Structure of Complex Systems "– dealing with issues such as causal ordering, decomposability, aggregation of variables, model abstraction – are of general interest in systems modelling, not just in economics.
The term phoneme as an abstraction was developed by the Polish linguist Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay and his student Mikołaj Kruszewski during 1875 – 1895.
* Map-territory relation – view that an abstraction derived from something, or a reaction to it, is not the thing itself.
The Blue Mountain ( 1908 – 1909 ) was painted at this time, demonstrating his trend toward abstraction.
Modern money ( and most ancient money too ) is essentially a token – an abstraction.
Zermelo's axioms went well beyond Frege's axioms of extensionality and unlimited set abstraction, and evolved into the now-canonical Zermelo – Fraenkel set theory ( ZF ).
It did require that applications be recompiled —- which most developers didn't do —- still, its hardware independence was used for Silicon Graphics ( SGI ) x86 workstations – thanks to NT's Hardware abstraction layer ( HAL ), they could operate NT ( and its vast application library ).
Let us suppose that L is a complete lattice and let f be a monotonic function from L into L. Then, any x ′ such that f ′( x ′) ≤ x ′ is an abstraction of the least fixed-point of f, which exists, according to the Knaster – Tarski theorem.
Even a Marxist theoretician such as Gramsci – reminds Caruso – admitted of the Homo economicus as a useful abstraction on the ground of economic theory, provided that we grant there be as many homines oeconomici as the modes of production.
* DirectFB – An abstraction layer on top of the Linux Framebuffer device
It was in the years 1913 – 15 that he developed the style of geometric abstraction for which he is best known today, a style which his friend Ezra Pound dubbed " Vorticism.
Probability and circumstance retain their proportionate importance, and discovery – reliant upon topics or loci – supersedes axioms derived through reflective abstraction.
The book dedicated to the exhibition of her work in New York at The Drawing Center in 2005 – 3x abstraction ( Yale University Press ) – analyzes the spiritual dimension in Martin's work.
The most important artist who had a great influence on the world culture was the sculptor Constantin Brâncuşi ( 1876 – 1957 ), a central figure of the modern movement and a pioneer of abstraction, an innovator of world sculpture by immersion in the primordial sources of folk creation.
His epistemology can be regarded as primitive materialist empiricism ; he believed that human cognition ought to be based on one's perceptions – one's sensory experiences, such as sight and hearing – instead of imagination or internal logic, elements founded on the human capacity for abstraction.
* Presentation – abstraction – control
Boehm " Type inference in the presence of type abstraction " SIGPLAN v24 n7 pp192 – 206 ( 1989 )
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