The phrase "abstract discussions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to conversations or dialogues that are theoretical or not grounded in practical examples.
Example: "The conference focused on abstract discussions about the future of artificial intelligence and its implications for society."
Alternatives: "theoretical conversations" or "conceptual dialogues".
For many, this is a much more persuasive message than abstract discussions about bank regulation and economic rebalancing.
Marcel Proust succeeded in incorporating many abstract discussions of the value of art, love, and friendship in his very original and loose type of fiction.
Its scope is "ambitious and all-inclusive, from practical information... to deeper, more abstract discussions of faith, ethics and philosophy," Diane Cole wrote in these pages in 2000.
Unions and corporations, barred from spending their own funds on campaign advertisements, evade the law by running commercials that pretend to be abstract discussions of political issues.
Marc Racicot, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, said that while "there certainly have been some abstract discussions about what the law will allow," the committee has not set up a group to raise and spend soft money.
The "abstract" discussions about stretching the bounds of the law on torture and interrogation were never made available to "soldiers in the field, nor to the president," Mr. Gonzales said.
But my questions soon sparked an abstract discussion: What, exactly, was French food culture?
The nature of what we call democracy is sadly no longer an abstract discussion beloved of political science professors.
These actions speak louder than the words of an abstract discussion at Kuwait University on a Saturday night.
In all of the abstract discussion about Labour values, it's easy to forget that one of Labour's real concrete values is to support and defend the NHS.
Beyond the abstract discussion of retention rates, graduate employment and "learning gain" are human stories that can richly describe what happens when university teaching isn't up to scratch.
