As Margrethe keeps insisting, everything under discussion, from politics to the loftiest scientific abstractions, is finally also personal.
But the necessity of these forms ultimately derives from the necessity of the third level of the a priori, because the forms of sensibility and understanding are "scientific abstractions" (Cohen 1987 [1871b], 83 84) from that third level.
ROWAN UNIVERSITY "Drawing Networks: Abstractions and the Scientific," exhibition of abstract works by Eva Lee, Henry Mandell and Karen Margolis.
Scientific and philosophical abstractions, as important as they are, do not satisfy at the level of day to day, because they are rarely what I want to know.
On this view, not Bergman, not Dreyer, not Antonioni, not Hitchcock, not Bresson none of the modernists, with their realistic and theatre-based images, could come close to the depths of experience of scientific and visual abstractions.
On this view, not Bergman, not Dreyer, not Antonioni, not Hitchcock, not Bresson — none of the modernists, with their realistic and theatre-based images, could come close to the depths of experience of scientific and visual abstractions.
In contemporary American literature, John Hersey's Hiroshima (1946), though it recorded the actual results of the nuclear attack on the Japanese city in 1945, did so in terms of human immediacies, not scientific or demographic abstractions, and this approach is essentially novelistic.
Scientific workflows represent an abstraction that hides the complexity of the involved computing and data infrastructures.
And, as recent developments have increased the level of abstraction of scientific thought, it has become further removed from its anthropomorphic origins.
Chapter 2 unfolds as the authors identify four salient features of scientific language: technical vocabulary, abstraction, high density, and tightly knit structure (p. 20-21).
