Or even more abstract constructs such as legal obligations, which the Bilski case involved?

For example, sets are useful, abstract mathematical constructs that were only conceived in the 19th century.

Money and debt are just abstract constructs of power and control.

It also continues to emphasize the approach of health promotion as applied to people and not an abstract construct.

Multiplication is also defined for other types of numbers (such as complex numbers), and for more abstract constructs such as matrices.

For these more abstract constructs, the order that the operands are multiplied in sometimes does matter.

The weakness is that they are abstract constructs which are, unfortunately, one step removed from the physical world.

It conceives the "ghetto landscape as a generalized abstract construct.

But our Union is not an abstract construct; it is not just another administrative level of governance.

The basic premise of thaumaturgy is that "reality" is merely an abstract mathematical construct.