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# abstraction

«abstraction» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: **an idea or quality that is not a real object you can…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural abstractions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An abstraction is an idea or quality that is not a real object you can touch, such as love, freedom or number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#m1)

2) Abstraction can mean being lost in thought, so you do not notice what is around you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in algebra a letter such as x stands for a number, or a piece in a game such as chess is a general idea of a move; in stories a clever person may seem lost in thought

### examples

- It means that its easiest continuations, its safest abstractions, its default moral vocabulary, and its sense of what counts as a normal explanation are pulled toward that cultural regime. (note 03) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x1)
- The note does not say the model "believes American things"; it says its easiest continuations, safest abstractions and sense of a "normal" explanation are pulled toward that culture — like a pupil who has read a thousand school essays and writes every new one in the same shape without noticing. (lesson 005) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x2)
- Love is an abstraction; you cannot touch it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x3)
- In algebra, x is an abstraction for an unknown number. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x4)
- His abstraction made him forget the time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x5)
- The pieces in chess are like abstractions for soldiers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/#x6)

### note

a letter standing for an unknown number does not change the count itself, but the problem must still give or find its value before any sum is worked out

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «abstraction» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/A/abstraction/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.