Human agency in its prosecution is obscured or mediated, via human collectives, abstract things and processes, by giving agency to technology (e.g. 'American bombers attacked military targets').
What about some kind of collective or abstract image instead; perhaps a statue, but maybe a wall, mural, relief, structure, or accessible space?
Using inclusive language that expands and enriches our understanding of God includes the practice, when writing and speaking of persons or God, of using precise language and explicit pronouns; referring to collective and abstract nouns without gender; and avoiding the exclusive use of either masculine or feminine pronouns for God.
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Collectives are abstract mathematical objects that are not empirically instantiated, but that are nonetheless posited by von Mises to explain the stabilities of relative frequencies in the behavior of actual sequences of outcomes of a repeatable random experiment.
To appropriately understand these structures as a collective, the following abstract definition is developed.
Disengaged from larger societies, Islamism can provide a sense of identity, albeit simplistic, of belonging to an abstract collective of Muslims "persecuted" by the West.
This concept has been relevant from molecules to organisms but loses meaning at population and community levels where study targets are abstract collectives and assemblages.
The show included the album's new single, "Echoes Round the Sun," leaking with guitar noise, and its title track, which uncomfortably echoes the Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)." But it didn't go off into the trancelike or weird new stuff, the putative tributes to Pentangle and Alice Coltrane and the abstract improvising collective AMM.
For Malraux, collective heroism in the abstract replaces the real political scene.
