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An intensional representation of a class, typically a description. Abstractions always summarize, that is, they emphasize some properties and leave out other properties. Omitted properties may be particular to members of the class but are not salient to defining the class.
Ãâó: www2.parc.com/istl/groups/hdi/sensemaking/glossary...
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Abstraction (right): A mental activity, an attitude of mind which affects primarily the entire life-attitude of the personality. It involves not only the detachment from long habit, but it involves also a complete readjustment of the entire threefold person to the world of souls.
Ãâó: iamuniversity.org/glossary/cv_glossarylist.php
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is the feature of modern architecture that makes it into formal play, emptied of figuration and representation. The ultimate limit of abstraction is formalism and emptiness.
Ãâó: www.a-studio.nl/en/writings/abc/
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Abstraction is the process of describing some system in a way that highlights relevant properties and suppresses irrelevant details.
Ãâó: www.cs.ucc.ie/~dgb/courses/swd/glossary.html
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(cf truth). The Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language (New World Publishing Co., 1957), page 6, defines abstract as "thought of apart from any particular instances or material objects; not concrete."
Ãâó: www.maquah.net/We_Have_The_Right_To_Exist/WeHaveTh...
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