Sentence examples for abstract category from inspiring English sources

Race is an abstract category which is given symbolic meaning.

In a sense, the objects of an abstract category have no windows, like the monads of Leibniz.

Some of Dr. Siddall's own contributions to the exhibition, images of bacteria in leeches that have been manipulated to produce an orange fluorescence when exposed to green light, fall into the abstract category.

(Roberto Bolaño, "Between Parentheses") Not only is this aphorism true, it's also versatile: you can use its structure ("One is prepared for ABSTRACT CATEGORY, not for PARTICULAR MEMBERS OF THAT CATEGORY") to talk about almost anything.

That abstract category sounds absurdly difficult, but it wasn't: it merely required that we ask a slightly different set of questions and grasp a slightly different set of conventions, and, after two or three rounds of practice, guessing the contents of someone's mind fifty miles ago becomes as easy as guessing Winston Churchill.

With no further qualification such a category is considered an abstract category.

A weaker framework of ontological unification is categorial unity, wherein abstract categories such as causality, information, etc, are attached to the interpretation of the specific variables and properties in models of phenomena (see Cat 2001 and 2006).

The rhetorical imagination tries to replace real things with abstract categories.

The next layer combines these observations into more abstract categories, identifying edges, shadows and the like.

She describes herself as a formalist and arranges her thoughts in seemingly abstract categories ("Numbers," "Space," "Confined Space" and "Details").

It did not take long for concrete categories to be replaced by abstract categories, again described axiomatically.