The phrase "abstract foundation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theoretical concepts, philosophical ideas, or the underlying principles of a subject.
Example: "The abstract foundation of her argument was rooted in existential philosophy, challenging conventional beliefs."
Alternatives: "theoretical basis" or "conceptual groundwork".
A 200-level course will set out the systematic, abstract foundations for a field and develop tools needed to get to the present frontiers.
Category theory has lead to reconceptualizations of various areas of mathematics based on purely abstract foundations.
Although the concept of an interaction network can seem abstract, at its foundation each interaction is a physical event that takes place when two proteins encounter one another, bind, and cause a change that affects a cell's activity.
As has been widely acknowledged, his paintings laid the foundation for Abstract Expressionism.
In this paper we give a new axiomatic foundation of abstract Voronoi diagrams that works without the finite intersection property.
Thinking and communicating through abstract symbols is the foundation of all creativity, art and music, language and, more recently, mathematics, science and the written word.
In the late 1950s, artists took divergent aesthetic paths in reaction to the dominance of Abstract Expressionism, laying the foundation for a plurality of styles that proliferated in the ensuing years.
This idea was prominent in A Fragment on Government, where he argued that effective government was not to be had on the foundation of abstract formulas such as "mixed and balanced" institutions, but required "the frequent and easy changes of condition between governors and governed; whereby the interests of one class are more or less indistinguishably blended with those of the other" (1977, 485).
This building block of cognition can be used to construct ever-higher functions representations of representations the foundation of abstract thought.
Learning to play a musical instrument has an effect on the brain's proportional thinking and spatial temporal reasoning that lay the foundation for abstract math.
