The idea of objectively justifying our practices and standards of conduct by appeal to the abstract, decontextualized stance of an ideally impartial and benevolent agent is at least prima facie plausible.
We changed "predicted" to "might be" in the Abstract to soften the stance.
The approach to this complexity reflects the tension between a reductionist, reverse-engineering stance, and more abstract, systemic ones.
Intentional stance is an abstract tool that enables the predictive analysis of complex systems such as human actors, but does not account for the cognitive nature of those processes and the way that they operate [15].
Those cubist-friendly lines and rectangles are practically begging for conceptual or abstract manipulations, perfect to support any artistic stance against consumerism, the FDA, mega brands, junk food--you name it. .
Shostakovich's deadly game with Stalin comes to mind and how he used the abstract language of music to take his own stance and give great succour to his fellow countrymen.
When we talk about Eich's anti-gay stance, we aren't just talking about abstract beliefs.
The poet's own attitudes are subsumed by the abstract term rindī ("vagabondry"); some have ascribed to Ḥāfeẓ the stance of a rebel to the social order.
On the other, the abstract principles of John Rawls's liberal state, with its neutral stance between competing visions of the good, is a misreading of liberalism.
The same dogmatic stance as before has it that a rule is an abstract entity transcending all of its particular applications; knowing the rule involves grasping that abstract entity and thereby knowing how to use it.
