Auriol is explicit that universal concepts (formed through the Aristotelian process of abstraction) always appear to us as abstractive cognitions, since what is universal abstracts from any presentness and directness of the object of cognition (see e.g. Scriptum, Prologue, q. 2, ed. Buytaert, p. 206, n. 111, l. 87, Pasnau 2002, p. 207; cf. Friedman 1997, pp. 310 14).
In NLPor, Kilwardby describes the process of abstraction as the interaction of two aspects of the intellect: the agent intellect abstracts the intelligible species (species intelligibiles) from the images of sensible things acquired through sense perception.
Chanin put classical architecture through a process of abstraction.
"The sense of 'other' is a given within the process of abstraction," she said.
One recent tendency in the development of mathematics has been the gradual process of abstraction.
Locke's answer is that ideas become general through the process of abstraction.
Looking for these forms is often just the process of abstraction — trying to see the thing in its most elemental of characteristics, and no more.
(See, for example, Soles, 1999) The process of abstraction is of considerable importance to human knowledge.
In that, we partially agree with Wing (2008), who considers the process of abstraction as the core of computational thinking.
