It'll be your little sister's turn then to run in on me while I am abstracting the U.
Just at the moment when I should have been abstracting the fifteen hundred dollars from the box under the tree, according to the original proposition, Bill was counting out two hundred and fifty dollars into Dorset's hand.
But our mind knows by abstracting from such the species, that is, the universal.
The first question is whether our mind knows corporeal things by abstracting the species from the images--the type from the particular.
Charles the Twelfth and Archimedes were very different men; yet both, in similar circumstances, gave similar proofs of their uncommon power of abstracting their attention.
The power of abstracting our attention is universally allowed to be necessary to the successful labour of the understanding; but we may further observe, that this abstraction is characteristic in some cases of heroism as well as of genius.
We may surely educate children to this habit of abstracting the attention, which we allow depends entirely upon practice.
Yet the very same power of abstracting the attention, when employed upon scientific and literary subjects, would excite our astonishment; and we should, perhaps, immediately attribute it to superior original genius.
But abstracting these glaring errors, the conception and execution of the work are as perfect as possible.
It was the power they enjoyed of abstracting in this manner from surrounding and uninteresting details, which constituted the principal charm of ancient history.
And I know, too,' said he, suddenly seizing my closed hand and rudelyabstracting them from it.
After committing innumerable depredations, he was captured in a gentleman's dining-room in the act of abstracting a quantity of plate.
We can then consider extension and whiteness in themselves, abstracting the actual affection which they produce in us.
The first kind of activity can belong only to changeable beings; the second also to immutable beings, which are causes; the third is an activity which belongs to mutable or immutable beings, abstracting absolutely the idea of causality.
If, after abstracting all determination, we also abstract being itself, what remains?
When we meet the figure 1, which corresponds to this idea, and expresses it in a general manner, abstracting the difference of idioms, all men understand and apply it in the same manner.
The idea of a polygon in general, abstracting the number of its sides, offers in its sensible representation, nothing determinate to the mind, nothing but the abstract idea of a right line, the general idea of an enclosed space.
Abstracting the testimony of the internal sense, and looking only at the nature of the internal phenomena, it may be demonstrated that the subject of them is a simple substance.
Abstracting it from our intuition, there still remains something which verifies the propositions by which we express the properties of time.
Examining one conception of this permanent something, we find that, afterabstracting its qualities, we have: I.
In other words, parts ad infinitum may be taken in space by the abstracting mind, but these parts have no separate existence.
It was objected by some of the critics of Descartes that the idea of God as the infinite Being is merely negative, and that it is derived from the finite simply by abstracting from its conditions.
Here also we reach the reality, or thing in itself, by abstracting from all determination.
He considers it to be a personal rather than a philological characteristic, certain individuals having a minimum amount of abstracting power, and such individuals being inordinately common amongst the American Indians.
That is, by any power or strength of his own, abstracting from the grace of God.
The law, abstracting from faith and grace, worketh wrath occasionally, by being an occasion of many transgressions, which provoke God's wrath.
The only objection to the long tube I found to be the difficulty sometimes arising in abstracting the bullets; but my cork has now removed that difficulty.
By mentally abstracting any quality and regarding it as something distinct from the object, it obtains an abstract notion, as sweetness, bravery, hardness, etc.
Let me take that pipe,' she said, cautiously advancing her hand and abstracting it from his mouth.
While it revealed the forms or natures of things to sense, it remained itself impervious to intellect, which grasped these natures and rendered them intelligible only by divesting them of matter, by abstracting them from matter.
We must conceive it as individual before conceiving it as actually existent; and we can conceive it as individual while abstracting from its existence.
It involves the processes of defining and classifying, affirming and denying, abstracting and generalizing, analysing and synthesizing, comparing and relating in a variety of ways the objects grasped by our thought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstracting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
