Some of the speculations of Greek philosophers adverted to in a previous chapter may serve to show us what comes of the omission to conceive of power as abstracted from substance or its properties.
The Greek philosophers, as we have seen, before Plato and Aristotle, found that their systems of causes, which did not involve the idea of power as abstracted from substance, would not account for the phenomena of nature.
This want was the conception of divine power, as abstracted fromsubstance or the qualities of substance.
It is accidental to the universal to be abstracted from particulars, in so far as the intellect knowing it derives its knowledge from things.
For the universal, seemingly, is what is abstracted from particulars.
Now everything according to its species is abstracted from "here" and "now"; whence it is said that universals are everywhere and always.
For those who do not make pure space a reality independent of bodies this definition has no meaning; for if place like pure space is nothing, to speak of the same place abstracted from bodies, is to speak of nothing.
That intelligibility requires immateriality is shown by this, that no material thing is intelligible, unless, inasmuch as it is abstracted from matter.
At irregular intervals, a small percentage of them may be marked off the books as "bad," but usually the minor fluctuations are abstracted from.
Changes in the value of money must, therefore, be abstracted from.
I should be much obliged to any one who would tell me to what the idea of being in general corresponds, abstracted from existence.
To render two things distinct, it is requisite that one be not the other; but since essence, abstracted from existence, is nothing, we cannot say that there is a real distinction between them.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstracted from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
