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three times named and still an abstraction
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John Bigelow came to the conclusion that we sleep so that “the nobler part of the soul is united by abstraction to our higher nature and becomes a participant in wisdom and foreknowledge of the gods
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I am an abstraction that means nothing
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Meredith was, as usual, lost in dreams when supper began that evening, but presently a name pierced his abstraction and brought him back to reality
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That fact had seeped through all his abstraction very early in his ministry in Glen St
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Abstraction refers to the act of representing essential features without including the background details or
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Classes use the concept of abstraction and are defined as a list of abstract attributes such as
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Since the classes use the concept of data abstraction, they are known as Abstract Data Types (ADT)
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A few lines of meaningless abstraction
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In their search for the sublime, says Carol Iannone, an editor at the journal of the National Association of Scholars, modern artists seek to confront a “limitless unknown” abstraction that transcends everyday experience
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When art proceeds from a mold of hatred and rejection of the society in which the artist lives, artistic expression tends to become banal soup cans or incomprehensible abstraction
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Q: Are you not immersed timelessly in an abstraction?
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The body is an abstraction,
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concretion and abstraction, the focal and the universal
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The whole is an abstraction, the particular, the
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If we eliminate the social factor from the child we are left only with an abstraction; if we eliminate the individual
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out of a tradition of authorities rather than abstraction from or opposition to a
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frozen, and then, seeming to snap out of abstraction at the same
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Rescued from his abstraction for the persistency of Duprina’s voice, he dropped:
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Minutes later, rescued of the abstraction for the subtle calling of Leonardo pronouncing my name, I turned and found him with his blue eyes
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The headmaster had impatiently refused the offer of a chair, preferring to remain standing awkwardly at one side of the room, gazing in bored abstraction through the open windows to where a game of soccer was in progress
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conferred by that abstraction called the University-- usually at the hands of
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It is a higher-order abstraction whose
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of abstraction between the software and the machine
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relationship hierarchies and logical levels of abstraction
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On this particular day I awoke from what seemed to be sleep, but who knows, it could have been an abstraction, and looking towards the setting sun, I could make out a shimmering herd of various beasts of different kinds, crawling creatures were near my feet, and a small swarm of flying insects pestered my head
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She thus takes the abstraction out of learning, and gives it a context
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adds unnecessarily to all this abstraction
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merely a puzzling and inconvenient abstraction
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Any abstract collective is only made up of individuals and only its individuals, not its abstraction, can love each other and others
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Weaned into a world promoting figments of our I'mage, our connectivity is a virtual synethesia: a collective perception giving rise to an altered reality inhabited by a consented upon abstraction and integrated with the socially corrected senses
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He pulled his cap out of the pocket into which it had been stuffed, and began to put it on, tugging it first over one ear and then over the other in a deep abstraction
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Miss Cartwright, to rouse her, for she appeared to have fallen into an abstraction, suggested that perhaps she could give her some clue as to where in Bethnal Green she might most fruitfully search for the payee, and Fanny, after gazing at her a moment collecting her thoughts, gave her the brother--a priest in a cassock, she said; explaining that everyone was sure to know where he lived, because he stood on chairs in the street and preached
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As for my not remembering thee,' he went on, putting one arm round the back of my chair, while the other was round the back of Charlotte's, 'be not offended, for I tell thee that the day after I married my Lot here, I fell into so great an abstraction that I started for a walking tour in the Alps with some friends I met, and for an entire week she passed from my mind
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'Don't tell me you have forgotten me again,' I exclaimed anxiously; for his eyes turned from the lake to me as I came over the moss to him in an unchanged abstraction
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'I therefore gave a sigh of satisfaction,' he continued, 'lit my pipe, and, contemplating the evening heavens from the window, happy in the thought of being so near my little wife, I fell into an abstraction
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' For I heard a great clamour on the stairs, and who knows what an agitated wise man may not do, and afterwards pretend he was in an abstraction?
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And besides, long before you got to Hiddensee you would have sunk into another abstraction and begun to fish or something, and you'd come back here in the evening with no Charlotte and only fishes
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At this meal Herr Dremmel, full of his fertilizers, was mostly in a profound abstraction
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Fritzing was the last man wilfully to break local rules or wound susceptibilities; and pulled out of his unpleasant abstraction by the vicar's voice he immediately desisted from continuing his short cut, and coming onto the path removed his hat and apologized with the politeness that was always his so long as nobody was annoying him
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child we are left only with an abstraction; if we eliminate the
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The Difference between Actuality and Abstraction
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Linear abstraction was created from the invention of cutting implements
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The first tools ever created; the principle is it based upon is creating linear lines of separation, this is also the basic principle of all linear abstraction
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And we prize and cherish this abstract shit over and above all the millions and billions of living trees and plants that we kill every year; why? Because the actual living world is not worth looking at, as much as this boring, unchanging abstraction called an oil painting?
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This is why human abstraction is so inhumane
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By using the same tools in the same way for millions of years: tools ritualized hominid-human existence into a repetitive, duplicated, preserved pattern, which ultimately evolved into a complex culture… a lifestyle that was based upon abstraction and duplication
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The result is what i call: abstraction
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It produced an entire array of things that we call by different names, but all are a product of creative abstraction
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The products of our creative abstraction: we call ‘culture’
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We have learned how to kill by abstraction
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This is the problematic dynamic of human reality, this is the problem of normality and abstraction and actuality re-reflecting between each other, so one mirrors the other
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The increasing sophistication of human culture is the benchmark of humans living no longer by actuality, but by abstraction
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Abstraction is the root of all human separation from actuality
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Abstraction is what separates us from the universe, from nature, from other humans, and from ourselves
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Once humans became abstractive, once they identified with abstraction more than actuality, once fear and separateness became a dominant condition of human awareness, then because of the abstractive nature of their different languages and cultures: humans became strangers, enemies
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The problem is that all human abstraction is arbitrarily and randomly creative
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On the level of abstraction, humans are intrinsically creative: but not connectively
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But whether you use your imagination to turn something into a concrete reality or not: And vice versa, It's process and origin is the same: the creative use of your tool-brain: abstraction
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If a person is not constantly questioning what they perceive inside themselves and outside themselves: then normality-reality becomes a dominant unthinking, unfeeling reflex: then Abstraction eventually distorts Actuality
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We only recognize the abstraction of the baby’s name: not the actual baby itself…
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In short: how we raise our children is based upon abstraction; not upon actuality, upon learning, not instinct
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The entire evolution of humans, from pre-history up to the present is primarily one of cultural abstraction: not genetic
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The emergence of civilization marks a crucial point in human abstractive evolution: Humans becoming so connected-to, and identifying-with their own abstract ideas, having become so separated from the Actual Universe they exist in, that Abstraction became more real than Actuality
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The imbalance of their Inner and Outer awareness took on a one-sided evolutionary path of the Imbalanced Splitness called: Inner Reflectivity: or, the development of abstraction
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Simply because abstraction has replaced actuality in human awareness at a root level of human awareness and human culture
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A measuring stick is an abstraction
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This where the insane abstraction known aw mathematics came from
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Human abstraction cannot exist without the Imaginary Linear Line
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Abstraction is more important than actual living
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The emergence of law was a natural evolution of human abstraction
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It was in this way that abstraction itself came to be worshipped
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The end result is that people's lives are governed by abstraction and not actuality
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This simply goes to show that all forms of human abstraction including one's own self-created reality or truth, and any human-created abstract body of law: are entirely questionable and relative
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It is a purely abstract set of abstraction
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But measurement is based upon abstraction and objectivity… and all objectivity is based upon one-sided separation
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The idea that you can distance yourself from the earth you live on is a symptom of the insanity of human abstraction
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And therein lies the entire mess and problem of human abstraction and human civilization: translating actual things into symbols, and then back again
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How and why is an abstraction translated into an actuality? And vice versa? What is the process? The dynamic? What are the effects? The consequences? How and why does money work as the main value-system of human civilization? And what does it produce?
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If the economy is based upon ephemeral human factors of self-confidence, fear, greed, courage, panic… and regardless of any actual wealth or power: it depends on human values in order to survive; then what does money represent? A symbol of human confidence, self-esteem? A symbol that represents an actual car, a house? A symbol of potential growth, potential confidence? Does it represent human feelings, outlooks? Or does it represent dead machines and houses and things? Does the possession of more money represent a higher self-esteem? Or does a higher self-esteem end up being represented by more money? In the stock market: does money represent confidence, or does confidence represent money? Does fear represent a lack of money, or does a lack of money represent fear? What is being represented by what? Which is reflecting the other? In which order? How does this all work?… Why? How does the reflecting dynamic of creative potential-abstraction-actualization-concretion work? How and why is abstraction turned into something that is actual? And vice versa? These are some of the questions that need to be asked if we want to understand ourselves and the civilization we exist in
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But ultimately, the fact remains that you cannot separate abstraction from actuality
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The evolution of the human tool-brain can be seen as a process of increasing abstraction
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Until you have the total spiritual bankruptcy of modern American culture and its latest product of dehumanized humanity… where teenagers constantly complain of boredom because they have nothing else to do except go to the mall, watch TV, or play video games… where the only activities available to them are vacuous, meaningless exercises in pure distraction and abstraction
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To exist only on a level of pure abstraction is merely another example of abstract normality: another condition of civilized dehumanized evil
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Thus: the dehumanizing abstraction of money and the universal motivation of greed fuels the entire global system of capitalism: and it does so by splitting up human existence into compartmentalized, separated processes, by insulating each one through secrecy
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This is the new, modern inhumanity of machine abstraction: destroying all forms of human-to-human contact and replacing it with human-to-machine contact
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The seeking of validation and approval by the ego becomes both externalized, and internalized by the constant re-reflection between abstraction and actuality
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This is only one example of why abstraction is stupid
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Abstraction destroys human happiness and fun
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They are not the tool-values of non-change, normality, reflective fear, separation, segmentation, specialization, accumulation, pyramidalization, prioritization, imbalance, abstraction, corruption, trauma, non-experienced experience and non-experienced pain: they are not the values of deadness, accumulation and dead things
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You cannot love an abstraction, or a mathematical number, or faceless hordes
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Unchanging deadness and sameness becomes beautiful, while all of the constantly changing infinitely creative beauty of nature is ignored, used, manipulated, non-valued, except as a temporary respite from abstraction
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Abstraction can never replace actuality
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If you work at any reflected abstraction, you will value it more simply because of the energy you put into it
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If you live in a medium of abstraction, if you live in a condition of abstraction, you will value it more because you are more connected-to it, so that abstraction is more real to you
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The civilized concept of beauty consists of abstraction
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All modern human culture was born from the abstraction of translating things into identicalized symbols or numbers
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The potential for destruction gone rampantly insane… All done by, with, and in: a detached scientific level of abstraction
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The actual living Jesus was abstracted and distorted by this inevitable process cultural abstraction and mythification so much: he has disappeared as a person
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When people become alienated-isolated-insulated from each other, forced into antagonistic and competitive roles, when they interact only on levels of abstraction, when they become strangers, enemies to each other, when they live in a social atmosphere of fear and unconnectedness: then no healing can happen except incrementally
