| "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking." | |
| "maybe an abstract, just splash on the paint, see where it takes me." | |
| 'Course, I had known that all along, but up until that moment, it was an abstract idea. | |
| 'I can show it, so it exists'. This is a central problem in maths to generally define the procedures which enable us to exhibit a being be it abstract, like a function. | |
| 'The bizarre thing is that the more abstract and difficult mathematics becomes, 'the more it seems to have applications in the real world. | |
| "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract positive thinking." | |
| "maybe an abstract, just splash on the paint, see where it takes me." | |
| 'Course, I had known that all along, but up until that moment, it was an abstract idea. | |
| 'I can show it, so it exists'. This is a central problem in maths to generally define the procedures which enable us to exhibit a being be it abstract, like a function. | |
| 'The bizarre thing is that the more abstract and difficult mathematics becomes, 'the more it seems to have applications in the real world. | |
| - Dealing in abstracts. | |
| - Just a few things. Here it's all shrieks... and abstracts. | |
| - Not just the abstracts, all of it. | |
| - Yea perusing the abstracts. | |
| . - Contemporary abstracts, right? . | |
| - Dealing in abstracts. | |
| - Just a few things. Here it's all shrieks... and abstracts. | |
| - Not just the abstracts, all of it. | |
| - Yea perusing the abstracts. | |
| . - Contemporary abstracts, right? . | |
| "Ancients, I beseech you. The soul, abstracted, let it revert to its true seat." | |
| "If there is some sign that the dead man's consciousness has left the body from a place on the head, then that's a good thing. It means that the consciousness has not been abstracted as it left the body completely." | |
| A serial killer's motives, anger, desire for revenge, whatever, are almost always profoundly abstracted. | |
| But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself. | |
| Did you ever think we'd be standing in a room full of vaguely abstracted images of Neil's junk? | |
| - We're abstracting. | |
| But this truth is accessible only from a specific, partial, engaged, engaged in the struggle, standpoint. So it's not that we arrive at the universal truth by abstracting from our particular engagement, from our particular interests, the idea being: | |
| "Ancients, I beseech you. The soul, abstracted, let it revert to its true seat." | |
| "If there is some sign that the dead man's consciousness has left the body from a place on the head, then that's a good thing. It means that the consciousness has not been abstracted as it left the body completely." | |
| A serial killer's motives, anger, desire for revenge, whatever, are almost always profoundly abstracted. | |
| But judgment of any system of phenomena exists in any rational, metaphysical or epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself, or of the thing itself. | |
| Did you ever think we'd be standing in a room full of vaguely abstracted images of Neil's junk? | |
| - We're abstracting. | |
| But this truth is accessible only from a specific, partial, engaged, engaged in the struggle, standpoint. So it's not that we arrive at the universal truth by abstracting from our particular engagement, from our particular interests, the idea being: | |
