For the Historical School is perfectly correct in maintaining that the abstractions of the current economic doctrine are practically useless, and that this is true not only of some of them, but of all.
Noun and verb do not exist in themselves, but are abstractions made by our destroying the sole linguistic reality, which is the proposition.
Even the abstractionsof the parts of speech are in this case both admissible and of assistance.
This theory and the subtleties derived from it, far from characterizing art, represent its contrary: the impotent velleity for art, which cannot slay abstractions and come in contact with life.
Art does not allow itself to be troubled with the abstractionsof the intellect, and therefore does not make mistakes; but it does not know that it does not make mistakes.
For abstractions are the conditions and only subject of all abstract sciences.
As masculine abstractionsare to be added Anger, Death, etc.
Thought can discriminateabstractions long before it can discriminate facts in their relations with Life.
There are no abstractionsin nature or the cosmos, and there is and can be neither abstract science nor science of abstractions, for abstractions, prescinded from their concretes, are simply nullities.
But abstractions in themselves are nullities, and consequently philosophy is a nullity, and science and religion are nullities.
If abstractions are used, every metaphor must be avoided which would make them play the part of living beings.
Accordingly event-particles areabstractions in their relations to the more concrete events.
Furthermore 'wherever and whenever' in themselves presuppose an event, for space and time in themselves are abstractions from events.
Furthermore there are different ways of making these abstractions which we think of as space and as time; and under some circumstances we adopt one way and under other circumstances we adopt another way.
Also I repeat, the abstractionsof science are entities which are truly in nature, though they have no meaning in isolation from nature.
In the first place we must avoid the abstractions of space and time in the formulation of our fundamental ideas and must recur to the ultimate facts of nature, namely to events.
Nature makes abstractions for us, deciding what range of vibrations we are to see and hear, what things we are to notice and remember.
I shall endeavour to show that they are abstractions from more concrete elements of nature, namely, from events.
For even if the subtler abstractions of scientific reasoning are very rare among, and little suited to them, still sound reason and judgment are only the more common.
As we have so often spoken of an unintelligible medley of barren abstractions as so many empty forms of thought, this truer notion of abstraction may well be allowed a brief passing consideration.
The abstractions of the Mazdean system have been referred to above.
Whatever be the explanation of the process, we find in fact a large number of cases in which such abstractions appear as deities and receive worship.
We know that in the later Roman periodabstractions were personalized, but this procedure was often poetical or rhetorical.
It is, however, not necessary to suppose that the abstractions in question are taken from the functions of the great gods.
This divinization of a drink was no doubt mainly priestly--it is a striking illustration of the power of the association of ideas, and belongs in the same general category with the deification of abstractions spoken of above.
Numbers, as such, are abstractionsand hard to be remembered.
Some educators think we should be very sparing of abstractions in the instruction of younger pupils.
He is at once "father of interludes," as interludes then were regarded, and an intermediary between the interlude of moral abstractions and the comedy of humours.
As a matter of fact, no inconsiderable portion of Swinburne's work is made up of a stream of half-visualised abstractions that crowd upon one another with the motion of clouds driven below the moon.
She beholds to the right and the left a quaking bog of abstractions and metaphysical definitions, whereon if a critic so much as set his foot he is sucked down into the bottomless mire.
It is not good for any but the strongest to dwell too much with abstractions of the mind.
But even here the reverberation of the words begins to conceal their meaning, and such abstractions as "the roar of the hours" lead into the worst of Swinburne's faults.
To have recourse to metaphysical abstractionsis futile.
If we leave it to our hearers to drape our naked abstractions with concrete details, each will set to work in a different way.
Hard realities and not generous and impossible abstractions interested them.
In practice, both of these abstractions are more or less consciously assumed.
My dissent comes when he seeks to erect the abstractions of the jurist into a complete social philosophy!
I am glad to find that the latest investigator of these religious abstractions is at one with me in believing that they simply mark a developed stage in the religious bent of the earliest Roman.
Considering with what passionate fidelity his own abstractions always face the concrete, this is perhaps more of an acknowledgment than at first sight appears.
Farewell, ye discoverers who seek the East through the thick darkness of abstractions as grand as first principles; and ye martyrs of thought, led by thought to the true light!
Your life, my friend, may thus be stated; we are in the North, among the clouds, where abstractions are familiar to our minds.
Long ago in the history of human questioning, Plato and Cicero discovered the advantages over dry argument of character and easy debate, and so much of story as clothed abstractions and hard notions with human life and affections.
In a universe of ordered abstractions and multiordinal meanings, the literal truth, on one order of abstraction, was often a black lie on another.
Farnsworth, all full of high-order abstractions and empty of meaning.
Each of these characters has a distinct individuality which lifts them from shadowy abstractions into living men and women.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abstractions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
