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So what this did to me, introducing education to me with "A is for apple," made education an abstraction.
But where I'm trying to be as clear as possible for you now, puzzles have to navigate the line between abstraction and clarity.
Instead, it's the slow burn of saying something through perplexing abstraction, yet being understood.
But there is a point to this abstraction, which is that it now suddenly becomes very widely applicable, because A, B and C could be anything.
And so it keeps thinking out loud of its own abstraction.
Incidentally, I've never understood the conflict between abstraction and naturalism.
So, at best, the image is meant to float away into abstraction and multiple truths and fantasy.
So you see, we're navigating the web for the first time as if it's actually a web, not from page-to-page, but at a higher level of abstraction.
If we're going to make justice a reality for everyone, we need to turn law from an abstraction or a threat into something that every single person can understand, use and shape.
And the thing is, is that oil is really an abstraction for us as the American consumer.
Pure abstraction isn't really my thing, but I can take it in small doses and the super-saturated optically printed colors and psychedelic feel of this series of flowers, Rohrschach blots, birds, etc is pretty compelling and quite beautiful.
The background paintings vary from traditional "fantasy" motif to outright abstraction, but the transition to abstracted settings is always motivated by the narrative and contributes greatly to the themes of the film.
There's something weird and fascinating in the notion of women being locked or locking themselves behind convent walls, where they have to lead a life that denies their identity of women, all of it to serve an abstraction called God.
They need abstraction.
It's all a case of level of abstraction from the story.
The images metamorphose from monochrome to color, from abstraction to realism, from seeming to be in a studio to being outdoors before your amazed eyes.
I wonder, too, if we are not nearing the end of a process of dissolution that now threatens to turn the abstraction of “the people” irreversibly into a fiction, one nearly impossible to imagine (let alone put a face to) and even more difficult to believe.
National projects ring hollow, and the so-called international community remains an abstraction.
There was always a problem in this approach, namely that the general price level is an abstraction.
That conclusion is no mere abstraction.
The growth of potential output is not just an economist’s abstraction.
For years, the argument remained an abstraction, a debate over what might happen in the future, until the Oslo agreement with the PLO in 1993 put the competing perspectives to the test.
Money there is an abstraction – “the abstraction of abstractions,” as Hegel put it – which helps explain why salaries are no longer rooted in reality.
For starters, there is the traditional idea that politics end at the water’s edge, where messy domestic disagreements are supposed to give way to the abstraction of one state with a unified national interest.
The high level of abstraction in macroeconomic analysis often obscures the fact that aggregate outcomes are the result of an enormous number of discretionary decisions by independent actors.
Moreover, terrorism is an abstraction that lumps together all political movements that use terrorist tactics.
Perhaps it is because we experience the downside of excessive traffic regulation or security measures every day, while the downside of bad climate policy is more of an abstraction.
One key example of a powerful and somewhat illusory global abstraction is the gross domestic product (GDP), which was adopted as the main measure of a country’s economic development and performance after World War II, when world powers were building international financial institutions that were supposed to reflect relative economic power.
While Americans have long been aware of the ideological chasm between their country and China, to most it was largely an abstraction.
The market, in this sense, is an abstraction – one that has little to do with actual markets, which are social institutions as varied and multitudinous as Leo Tolstoy’s unhappy families.
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