Sentence examples for Understood abstractly from inspiring English sources
It insists, however, that this good be understood abstractly, without the state taking sides on any theological question.
Guilt, remorse, a sense of defilement, and the hopeless desolation of being cut off from God cannot be understood in the abstract, because if they are only understood abstractly they are not ours.
Before that, I'd always understood speech abstractly.
Or there may be agreement on general reasons abstractly understood but disagreement about particular interpretations of those reasons.
The first is the concept called "teshuvah," which is commonly translated as "repentance" but is more abstractly understood as "returning home".
Grisso & Appelbaum characterise appreciation as 'the ability to apply the information abstractly understood to his or her own situation'.
As she shows, many elite white students understand the value of diversity abstractly, but they ignore the real problems that racial inequality causes and that diversity programs are meant to solve.
In this way, the neoconservatives developed a conservative critique of the welfare state that addressed itself directly to the errors of liberalism in a language liberals understood (social science) instead of speaking abstractly about the perils of "statism"–something that troubled conservatives but about which other Americans cared little.
"The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term" (PSIM, in SPR:1; in ISR: 369).
Can, and does, natural selection work at levels other than the level of Darwin's focus, individual organisms; is there a non-vacuous way to formulate the theory abstractly; how are we to understand the relationships between the concepts of fitness, selection and adaptation?
He cannot understand that there is nothing in what he says abstractly about God and the world that has not already been known by the believer from time immemorial in the medium of the latter's historical faith.
