Sentences with phrase «to abstraction»

Really it's an abstraction, because there's no assurance these «deferred» taxes will ever be paid.

But emissions aren't a mere abstraction — NOx kills.

«If cash is a representation of an abstraction, of a social construct,» says Wolman, «then digital money is an abstraction of an abstraction, inevitably diluting that sense of connection even further.»

How do they make their arguments — with outlines, with lofty abstractions?

This is a process that activates and is facilitated by abstraction, which in turn promotes creative thinking,» Harvard's Francesca Gino, who participated in the study, explained in the Harvard Gazette.

What is interesting here is not simply that the everyday language of «a fine day» is determined by a set of new - fangled scientific abstractions, but also the fact that a novel written after the war dares to inhabit the virtual outlook of before.

When you see somebody and you think «God, they're just a math person» or «she's just a natural salesperson,» that's leaving things at a level of abstraction that makes it impossible to learn.

Nissan's Infiniti tried something similar, pricing its quirky Q45 at $ 38,000 — although hardly anyone could tell, thanks to an ad campaign that focused on fuzzy pictures of trees and other abstractions rather than the car.

Not just for «the company» or other abstractions.

To most, the market is an abstraction with which they have little personal connection.

Tren's view is that the variables of the LTV formula are interdependent not independent, and are an overly simplified abstraction of reality.

And when we take those risks and we start to follow them in a process of abstraction which I will show you how we come up with the thesis... But over on the right hand side of this chart you will notice a red box with 11, those are the new ones of the 44.

It starts with a process that I refer to as a «process of abstraction».

Stellar enables tailor - made ICOs by providing base abstractions such as accounts, tokens, payments, offers (to exchange one token type for another), and atomic transactions consisting of multiple operations.

Users can combine these simple abstractions in complex ways to get a wide array of behaviors, similar to building custom structures with simple lego blocks.

This approach to AI emulates cognitive functions like perception, abstraction, reasoning, and learning to build machine - accumulated knowledge for organizations.

It is tragic to see people who can not think in abstractions.

(RM) Postmodern people distrust abstractions and are attracted to personal stories.

«Race» and «God» are two abstractions used to divide us — or unite us against one - and - other.

Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God».

«Obadiah was a cripple and a grump, on the beak of a bald - headed bird» Some lyricists are able to delicately transcend cohesive thoughts into imaginative worlds of abstraction.

We face here a very difficult theological issue» at least for a faith that has been grounded not just in metaphysical abstractions but in particular historical claims.

Here again Aron avoids abstractions of a sort that dangerously misunderstand the competitive nature of international relations as well as an amoral realism that obliterates any space for ethical restraint and reflection.

Experimenting for a year to stay away from such abstractions and declaring your beliefs (mystical or fundamental), could only help a person feel the moments through the layers abstract beliefs.

The Frenchman's lessons, as summarized by Poulos, are sometimes woolly — the difference between «performing our autonomy» (bad) and «experiencing our freedom» (good) is not intuitively clear to me — but nevertheless are provocative in the way that abstractions can be.

According to Rahner and Reno, theology does need to make this abstraction in order to identify the condition of the possibility of divine love's gratuity.

Liberalism as an abstraction can be criticized at the edges, but never in a way that might raise a doubt about one's being a liberal.

There are no abstractions in reality.

Such an abstraction may be, to paraphrase Pascal, the God of the philosophers, but it is very doubtfully the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and God incarnate in Jesus Christ.

All Biblical characters we read about are to some extent abstractions from the real person who lived in time and space.

In the moment we state this principle, we are admittedly back in the world of abstraction.

/ There must be a middle place between abstraction and childishness / where one can talk seriously about serious things.»

@ lionlylamb: per rightly dividing the word... the video below is what Paul was talking about (focusing on Christ), not philosophical abstractions... «See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.»

«In the enjoyment of a great myth we come nearest to experiencing as a concrete what can otherwise be understood only as an abstraction.

To speak as the White Rose did of humanity per se is to remain at the level of abstraction.

Christian sentimentality wants to transcend the material reality of the world, gesturing toward it only with stock abstractions — Grandma's hands, baby feet, home sweet home — that have no correspondence with the actual physical world, in order to get to a prearranged rendezvous of feeling.

Nonetheless they excoriated artistic traditionalism, going so far as to become firm believers in abstraction in artistic representation.

The suggestion that the three abstractions noted may be interpreted as disguised idealizations leads to a much larger question concerning the identity of relations in the context of Whitehead's conceptions of nature.

The third level of abstraction involves groups as foci of interaction.

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

These instances seem to raise an issue of whether the datum from which abstraction is made — concrete passage — is not different in kind from the three successive abstractions: space - time, its derivative set of time - systems, and a single member of this derivative set serving in the activity of natural measurement.

Although at times Hartshorne has spoken as though his account of experience rested on some intuition of its essence as exhibited in his own experience, 2 his predominant view and his philosophical practice advance a concept of experience that is generated by dialectical argument rather than by appeal to direct introspection or intuition: «The philosopher, as Whitehead says, is the «critic of abstractions.»

When we shift levels of abstraction, the pattern of significant relationships also shifts.

In considering passage Whitehead assumes that a structure of events «provides the framework of the externality of nature within which objects are located» (PNK 80) and that «space and time are abstractions expressive of certain qualities of the structure» (PNK 80).

And this is true of the other levels of abstraction as well.

If we are to be clear about the relationships among these elements, we need to arrange them according to their respective levels of abstraction.

At the fourth level of abstraction are institutions.

It follows from this, I believe, that incomplete phases of an occasion are themselves abstractions from satisfied occasions.

In Whitehead's interpretation coherence presupposes that «no entity can be conceived in complete abstraction from the system of the universe» (PR 3/5).

Consider three conjoined instances of abstraction.