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n. (plural of abstract idea English)
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To speak, to think, to feel, about abstract ideas as if they were living persons.
GENERAL IDEAS AND THOUGHT It is said to be one of the merits of the human mind that it is capable of framing abstract ideas, and of conducting nonsensational thought.
We could well imagine the extension of such a language from concrete to abstract ideas, and by the use of a kind of audio rebus-both analogous to the development in Mesopotamia and Egypt of human written languages.
Approaching it with full [189] information concerning what may be called the inner life of the Greeks, their modes of thought and sentiment amply recorded in the writings of the Greek poets and philosophers, but with no lively impressions of that mere craftsman's world of which so little has remained, students of antiquity have for the most part interpreted the creations of Greek sculpture, rather as elements in a sequence of abstract ideas, as embodiments, in a sort of petrified language, of pure thoughts, and as interesting mainly in connexion with the development of Greek intellect, than as elements of a sequence in the material order, as results of a designed and skilful dealing of accomplished fingers with precious forms of matter for the delight of the eyes.
What are concepts and abstract ideas really, but distant and simplified views, species of model drawings, giving only a few summary features of their object, which vary according to direction and angle?
The whole universe of concrete objects, as we know them, swims, not only for such a transcendentalist writer, but for all of us, in a wider and higher universe of abstract ideas, that lend it its significance.
Half unconsciously I found that my thoughts had been drifting from abstract ideas and abstract enthusiasms to persons, and with this divorce from abstractions began a feeling of weariness, of nausea.
Or the ego ideal might shift again, to abstract ideas, or to the brotherhood of men.
It has been sometimes seen, in the history of the human mind, that when thus translated into terms of sentiment--of sentiment, as lying already half-way towards practice--the abstract ideas of metaphysics for the first time reveal their true significance.
Our sensorium makes no distinction between concrete and abstract ideas in this respect.
Tall and wiry, with a handsome thin face, he loved brawling, had an impetuous temper and was slow to grasp abstract ideas.