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n. Words that represent concepts rather than physical things
Usage examples of "abstract language".
And so, those who cannot admit his actual speculative results, precisely his report on the invisible theoretic world, have been to the point sometimes, in their objection, that by sheer effectiveness of abstract language, he gave an illusive air of reality or substance to the mere nonentities of metaphysic hypothesis--of a mind trying to feed itself on its own emptiness.
This abstract language becomes clear enough, if we think of actual examples.
Concepts that had eluded him because they could not be shaped with images and feelings alone, but needed the rich subtlety of abstract language to shape and an- chor them with a webbery of symbols.
Concepts that had eluded him because they could not be shaped with images and feelings alone, but needed the rich subtlety of abstract language to shape and anchor them with a webbery of symbols.
On occasion he would visit that long, wedge-headed man and find in the abstract language with which they communicated their dizzy stratas of conjecture a temporary stir of interest.
He was one of a handful of living entities who could actually think in the abstruse and abstract language of pure mathematics.
Instead, he played with numbers (the abstract language of music, he had always thought) that combine and recombine in mysterious ways, numbers like the swarming stars that dazzled overhead in the clear Alpine night.