But removed entirely from the church (even a congregation), such ideas are almost complete abstractions. (firstthings.com)
On the contrary, language presents a distorted picture of reality in which single words, «bounded by full stops, suggest the possibility of complete abstraction from any environment» (MT 66). (religion-online.org)
In Whitehead's interpretation coherence presupposes that «no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe» (PR 3/5). (religion-online.org)