The phrase "abstract material" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theoretical concepts, intangible ideas, or non-physical substances in various fields such as art, philosophy, or science.
Example: "The artist's work often explores abstract material, challenging viewers to interpret meaning beyond the physical form."
Alternatives: "conceptual substance" or "theoretical content".
As far as I can see, he often regards Bach as abstract material, isolating the music from its historical perspective.
Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social.
The results are consistent with other studies of semantic processing in psychopathy and support the theory that psychopathy is associated with right hemisphere abnormalities for processing conceptually abstract material.
In this section we illustrate the abstract material in Sects.
Section 4 derives the abstract third Green identity, and finally Sect. 5 illustrates the abstract material in Sects.
Of course, the practical success of such an experiment can never be guaranteed: some readers are simply better than others at making narrative sense of abstract images; and some abstract material is more open to narrative reappropriation than other material of this sort.
But we also get ingenious and sophisticated games with the abstract materials of music: with time and speed, rhythm and harmony, metre and melody.
Abstract, Materials and Methods (Please note, measurements between groups of men and women were switched by mistake): "Thirty healthy men (age 21.2±0.7 years, body mass 63±6.3 kg, height 168.3±5.1 cm) and thirty healthy women (age 21.3±1.9 years, mass 82.5±7.9 kg, height 181.9±4.9 cm) were included in this study.
A curriculum which begins by teaching concepts via hands-on, concrete activities before moving into more abstract materials may be best suited to teach complex scientific and mathematical information.
Fyfe and colleagues propose a curriculum that orients students with concepts by first using hands-on techniques and then gradually moving to abstract materials traditionally associated with mathematics and science e.g., equations and illustrative models.
Findings from cognitive brain research also provide evidence that reasoning with knowledge-related problems is implemented in other brain areas than reasoning with abstract materials with no meaningful content [7], [8].
