Sentence examples for abstract essence from inspiring English sources

Classical virtue, in examples of which the literature abounded, was not an abstract essence but a quality that could be tested in the forum or on the battlefield.

His work characterized the abstract essence of any computing device so well that it was in effect a challenge to actually build one.

When we appreciate a painting, Lewis contends, what we contemplate is what this canvas could have in common with some reproduction of it, namely, "that qualitative and abstract essence which is here incorporated, and is theoretically repeatable in some other physical object" (1946, 477).

This work culminated in the invention of the programmable digital computer in the 1940s, a machine based on the abstract essence of mathematical reasoning.

Howard has stated: "In my painting (as in all my work) I am deeply involved with light as the movement and inter-action of colours; the integrity of colour and form, hence with the integrity of the total work which has to do with spirit and abstract essence, not representation.

Accordingly, the proper business of the rational soul was thought, and the proper objects of thought were not concrete particulars but abstract essences, which he called Ideas, or Forms.

The metaphysical stage follows, in which phenomena are explained by referring to the abstract essences that entities are supposed to possess.

The general philosophical pattern of a single world-essence that initially manifests itself as a multiplicity of abstract essences, which, in turn, manifest themselves as a multiplicity of physical individuals is found throughout the world.

The relation between language and the world is not explained by appeal to meanings, ideas or concepts in the mind, or abstract essences of things, but by practices for distinguishing different kinds of objects.

Brentano's distinction between genetic and descriptive psychology strongly influenced Husserl's development of the phenomenological method, especially in its early phases, a development of which Brentano could not approve for it involved the intuition of abstract essences, the existence of which Brentano denied.

"Slowly, I learned to abstract the essence of that movement," he said.