Karp's friend Chris Muscarella suggests that because Karp never had that familiar experience, "he has very little notion of what it means to be a conformist" or to measure his thinking against abstract conventional wisdom.
The netherworld characters have noble counterparts like "The Emperor of the Golden Trumpet,"and "Star From the Heavens" and abstract entities like "Wisdom" and "Past, Present and Future" who form a stately procession.
The best reason to back the government, though, is that civil liberties concerns about DNA, now almost conventional wisdom, are abstract and overstated.
The most abstract definition is that of wisdom, which Socrates says is the same thing as knowledge (epistêmê).
"Abstract" nouns like sadness and wisdom and "concrete" nouns like water and furniture all belong to the morphosyntactic class of mass nouns.
Conventional wisdom has it that abstract painting is dead, unless the abstraction incorporates some kind of narrative, but the work of a couple of pure abstractionists has been chosen.
Our findings indicate that full patents are considerably harder to analyze than patent abstracts and clearly confirm the common wisdom that using the same text genre (patent vs. scientific) and text type (abstract vs. full text) for training and testing is a pre-requisite for achieving high quality text mining results.
On these appeared personifications of the Christian cardinal virtues and other abstract ideas, such as truth, justice, wisdom, hope, and faith.
Establishing what is or is not a last resort is a matter not of abstract mathematical demonstration but of practical, concrete wisdom, acquired through experience and reflection.
So is it, as Gilligan suggests (in tension with her own account of women's recoil from abstract thought), social pressure that undermines the wisdom that girls acquire at their mother's knee?
