An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
An idea of an idealistic, unrealistic or visionary nature.
Any characteristic of an individual object when that characteristic has been separated from the object and is contemplated alone as a quality having independent existence.
The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the product of any mental process involving a synthesis of: separation, despecification, generalization, and ideation in any of a number of combinations.
A member of an idealized subgroup when contemplated according to the abstracted quality which defines the subgroup.
Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; the withdrawal from one's senses.
Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
The theory of a particular philosopher or school of thought concerning the fundamental types of entity in the universe.
A logical system involving theory of classes, developed by Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939).
A structure of concepts or entities within a domain, organized by relationships; a system model.
The branch of metaphysics that addresses the nature or essential characteristics of being and of things that exist; the study of being qua being.
In a subject view, or a world view, the set of conceptual or material things or classes of things that are recognised as existing, or are assumed to exist in context, and their interrelations; in a body of theory, the ontology comprises the domain of discourse, the things that are defined as existing, together with whatever emerges from their mutual implications.