abstractionistically

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Etymology[edit]

abstractionistic +‎ -ally

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abstractionistically (not comparable)

  1. In an abstractionistic way.
    • 1975, David W. McAleavey, If to Know is Noble: The Poetry of George Oppen:
      [] of recalling that Pound had been reading Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art about the time of his experience in the Paris Metro which he treated selectively and abstractionistically in his most famous and model Imagist poem.
    • 2001, Visual Arts in ASEAN: Continuity and Change:
      Through the medium of visual metaphors or vignettes, they can expose social, human or psychological experience realistically, surrealistically , or abstractionistically.
    • 2009, Roy T Cook, “Hume’s Big Brother: counting concepts and the bad company objection”, in Synthese[1], volume 170, number 3, Springer, →ISSN, pages 349–369:
      Ideally, the abstractionist position should eventually be developed and defended ‘internally’, that is, from the perspective of an abstractionistically acceptable version of set theory.

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