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Discussing Vanyel Demonrider in a stract was one thing.

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

Discussing Vanyel Demonrider in a stract was one thing.

Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

When it, comes to definitions and specific, cases, the rest of us may differ sharply but with reference to the ab-stract principle we are still within shouting distance of one another.

Unprintable 1969

Quantity, in Ockham's system, became merely an ab stract noun: it cannot exist by itself; it can increase or decrease without affecting the substance, as is seen in the phenomena of rarefaction and condensation; and by God's absolute power it can even be made to disap - pear entirely, as is known from the mystery of the

Dictionary of the History of Ideas WILLIAM A. WALLACE 1968

The object of an axiomatic system is therefore, properly speaking, a certain ab - stract structure.

AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

But this resolution of the paradox, though neat in the ab - stract, does not carry conviction.

LIBERALISM JOHN PLAMENATZ 1968

Liberty — eleutheria (now used in the ab - stract) — came to indicate a collective Greek attitude to political life as opposed to Persian despotism.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ARNALDO MOMIGLIANO 1968

He could only respond weakly by asking “how could there be such particles for ab - stract characters as voice or temperament, or from such nongenerating sources as nails or hair?”

Dictionary of the History of Ideas PETER VORZIMMER 1968

The ideal Carnot engine may be considered, in ab - stract terms, as marking the end of the spectrum of all thermo-mechanical transformations in nature and in art.

TECHNOLOGY D. S. L. CARDWELL 1968