So you have things like resemblance, where something which resembles the physical world can be abstracted in a couple of different directions abstracted from resemblance, but still retaining the complete meaning, or abstracted away from both resemblance and meaning towards the picture plan.

So you have things like resemblance, where something which resembles the physical world can be abstracted in a couple of different directions abstracted from resemblance, but still retaining the complete meaning, or abstracted away from both resemblance and meaning towards the picture plan.

We've just abstracted what the retina's doing with a set of equations.

To atomize music culture so that ALL past, present and future genres can be studied and abstracted, live.

The classical economics of the 1920 s abstracted from the problem of unemployment by assuming that it did not exist.

It's very frontal, it's very symmetrical, and severe, and kind of abstracted. And it feels very distant in that way.

Today s new classical economics abstracted from the problem of uncertainty by assuming that it could be reduced to measurable (or hedgeable) risk.

Keynesian economics, in turn, abstracted from the problem of official incompetence and corruption by assuming that governments were run by omniscient, benevolent experts.

In a more modern context, empiricists, like Hobbes and Locke, argued that knowledge (and, for Locke, language) emerge ultimately from abstracted sense impressions.

Groundwater abstraction activities or artificial groundwater recharge schemes where the annual volume of water to be abstracted or recharged amounts to 10 million cubic metres or more.

So if I'm, for instance, now looking at the buildings and the trees on the banks of the Nile, I'm receiving the forms of these buildings and these trees in the eye abstracted from their matter.

And that goes all the way around it apparently shows more than 50 different species of plants they're very natural in that we can identify these species but they're also highly abstracted and they form these beautiful, symmetrical, and linear patterns.

If we did, and looked beyond its apparent serenity and gentleness, this uneasy balancing act, this frenetic movement, this firm, unwavering line... ... we would see that this slender, elongated figure, with its abundant hair is light years away from the massive solidity of classical statuary... and that this abstracted, melancholy face, is closer to today's deadpan super models than the frankly carnal images of Venus which followed it.