Sentence examples for theoretical abstraction from inspiring English sources

Their frame of reference is "perfect competition," a theoretical abstraction that never has existed and never could exist.

Each of Krier's provocative and entertaining images is worth more than a thousand words of theoretical abstraction.

But opposing stem cell work seems to close off research that could alleviate human suffering for the sake of a theoretical abstraction.

The obsolescence of the human worker is no longer a theoretical abstraction; it's fast becoming a reality for many people worldwide.

The intense debate over the cells was merely a theoretical abstraction until three years ago, when Dr. James Thomson at the University of Wisconsin became the first to isolate them.

The paradox of intimate confession and aesthetic refinement, of theoretical abstraction and first-person emotion, is the very blend that makes Bergman one of the exemplary modern directors and one of the exemplary objects of parody.

But it is about experiencing the real, material world, not photography and not theoretical abstractions.

Rhythmic mode, one of a group of music theoretical abstractions that seek to capture and codify the main rhythmic patterns of French (primarily Parisian) polyphony of the late 12th and 13th centuries.

In its British incarnation, the idea of post-Fordism was the work of an economist called Robin Murray – another thinker who had cut his teeth in the tumult of 1968, and who based his thinking in the real world, rather than theoretical abstractions.

Include a plan for sustainability (e.g. financial, systems or political realities, not only theoretical abstractions).

As Wachbroit (1994, 587f) puts it, ideal planets are theoretical abstractions: mass points under the influence of a centripetal force and 'nothing else'.