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abstract model
n. (context engineering logic mathematics English) A model that contains an abstraction or abstractions of the reality.
Usage examples of "abstract model".
And, again, it was one thing to create an abstract model of all the possible combinations, and another to invent a machine able to carry them out.
Maddoc and his fellow bioethicists ceased to be merely dangerous and became bloody tyrants when they obtained the power to try to make the world conform to their abstract model of it, a model that was in conflict with human nature and no more representative of reality than an idiot savant's math tricks are representative of true genius.