It also includes our knowledge to make abstractions, which allows us to conceive of words in isolation.

And that is making abstractions from the world around him, although his work reflects reality rather than echoing it.

The un-abstracted world is the entire reason for making abstractions in the first place.

Thus, Funes was "not very capable of thought" because "to think is forget differences, to generalize, to make abstractions".

Elegant, precisely made diagrammatic abstractions in black on pristine white fields.

She had nothing to say, she did not make abstractions or discuss situations, she lived inside them.

Mr. Goldin makes abstractions from the world around him, although his work reflects reality rather than echoing it.

For the behavioural description, block diagrams are used by making abstractions of signals and their time response.

That's all there is to the story but not to the movie, which somehow makes manifest such abstractions as good humor and high spirits.

Now he sees "students who accept that as a given from a very early age and who start out making abstractions.