Sentence examples for a theoretical abstraction from inspiring English sources

Their frame of reference is "perfect competition," a theoretical abstraction that never has existed and never could exist.

But opposing stem cell work seems to close off research that could alleviate human suffering for the sake of a theoretical abstraction.

The obsolescence of the human worker is no longer a theoretical abstraction; it's fast becoming a reality for many people worldwide.

The intense debate over the cells was merely a theoretical abstraction until three years ago, when Dr. James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin became the first to isolate them.

The notion of a truly intelligent enterprise is not just a theoretical abstraction; modern technologies can seamlessly integrate across applications and master data stores — supporting data of any type for any purpose — to deliver the automated outcomes your business needs.

Free markets are a theoretical abstraction.

To discern themes that might constitute a basis for developing a theory, we used a structured second-order analysis to view the data at a higher level of theoretical abstraction (Gioia et al. 2013).

Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.

As an interdisciplinary journal, Political Behavior integrates various approaches across different levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical domain (contextual analysis).

The paradox of intimate confession and aesthetic refinement, of theoretical abstraction and first-person emotion, is the very blend that makes Bergman one of the exemplary modern directors and one of the exemplary objects of parody.

By its conclusion, we've strayed far from the "drama of the mind", at least in the personal sense; the novel is filled with digressions into pure mathematics and the most esoteric reaches of international investment banking, both arenas in which theoretical abstraction and real-world consequences coexist.