Abstract in sentence

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So the point about this little abstract example is that while preferences for specific physical features can be arbitrary for the individual, if those features are heritable and they are associated with a reproductive advantage, over time, they become universal for the group.

That sounds abstract, but imagine if Facebook engineers had considered that before they decided to show us only things that our friends had posted.

We work on it through theory, looking at abstract rule systems and thinking about the mathematics behind it.

So you can only get so far, I think, in telling your story by using these abstract statistics.

With sound genetics, I define, first of all, an aesthetic space of sound, and at the same time, I search for new, innovative methods for generating soundscapes that we don't know, soundscapes that allow us to envision abstract worlds, to make them tangible and audible.

This all sounds abstract.

What's the most abstract form?

But I was worried that if I tell all of this to the teenager, it might sound either too abstract or perhaps too weird, and there wasn't enough time anyhow, because people were waiting in the queue, so it suddenly felt like what I was trying to convey was more complicated and detailed than what the circumstances allowed me to say.

I think that we're pretty smart, as compared to chimpanzees, but we're not smart enough to deal with the colossal problems that we face, either in abstract mathematics or in figuring out economies, or balancing the world around.

It puts a human face on issues which, from afar, can appear abstract or ideological or monumental in their global impact.

And one of the things that I experimented with is this thing called Google Share which is basically, you take an abstract term, and you search Google for that term, and then you search the results that you get back for somebody's name.

I have a tool for understanding this confusing world of ours, a tool that you might not expect: abstract mathematics.

So now this has become very abstract.

Seeing these abstract structures can also help us switch contexts and see that different people are at the top in different contexts.

We can all use these abstract structures to help us pivot between situations in which we are more privileged and less privileged.

I perform these pivots in my head to help me understand experiences from other people's points of view, which brings me to this possibly surprising conclusion: that abstract mathematics is highly relevant to our daily lives and can even help us to understand and empathize with other people.

And I believe that abstract mathematical thinking can help us achieve that.

Now, similarly, in Locke’s society there are individuals who have certain rights, properties in a formal sense, and those are defined with respect to some absolute, abstract notions of rights and justice, and so forth, which are independent of what else has happened in the society.

Being able to treat sound as an instrument, and be able to dig for more abstract sounds and things to play live, mixing electronics and acoustics.

It's so abstract.

They're paintings I made and put a PalmPilot in the middle as a kind of display that's sort of thinking, I'm abstract art.

What am I? I'm abstract.

It became abstract.

And, of course, that makes sense, because hope is an abstract phenomenon; it's an abstract idea, it's not a concrete word.

Climate isn't really about some abstract, distant climate far, far away from us.

According to Borges, Funes’s memories even rendered him incapable of real thought, because “To think is to forget a difference, to generalize, to abstract.

Since all paintings are inherently abstract to begin with there doesn't seem to be an argument there.

Instead of the governor now we have a photograph of an abstract, beautiful setting, in this case, the ocean.

And one of the most interesting lessons I learned was that there is an experimental method that if you have a question you can create a replica of this question in some abstract way, and you can try to examine this question, maybe learn something about the world.

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