The phrase "abstract standards" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing theoretical concepts, principles, or criteria that are not tied to specific instances or examples.
Example: "In the realm of philosophy, abstract standards often guide ethical decision-making."
Alternatives: "theoretical criteria" or "conceptual benchmarks".
Nor, for that matter, did the philosophers care for the law as it was, their aim being the discovery of abstract standards of justice.
True, its immediate context is a reasoned discussion of the logical difference between terms like the "profit motive," which refer to psychological realities, and terms like "profitability," which refer to abstract standards of entrepreneurial measurement.
He shows regard for and empathy with younger people, such as Matthew Tynan, who was nine when his father, Kenneth Tynan, died; the common ground, unexpressed, is that of children of artists, geniuses, writers, who grow up with a set of strict abstract standards, a lack of material directives about success, and a dead father who lives on as a body of work.
Graphical abstract: Standards and metadata-based curation of a decade-old digital repository dataset of molecular information.
It misses the point, you might think, to say that abstract standards do not draw sharp lines, because they are not designed to draw lines at all.
But highway traffic regulation also needs (and typically uses) rules against careless or dangerous driving — abstract standards which are designed to control a variety of behaviour that lacks the uniform, measurable feature (speed) that allows the precision of a speed limit.
Any politician would suffer when compared with an abstract standard; any campaign lacks focus when it lacks an immediate objective.
"This is judging the mayor against an abstract standard," said Kenneth Sherrill, the chairman of the political science department at Hunter College.
SQL constraints are an abstract standard-compliant encoding of the designers' perception about the semantics of an application domain.
Unocal is not intended as an abstract standard; neither is it a structured and mechanistic procedure of appraisal.
Abstract Standard disparity measurements, like locational indices or relative variance indicators, are used to describe the territorial aspect of spatial concentration of the population.
