Abstraction vs Imagination - What's the difference?
abstraction | imagination |
The act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away.
* 1848 , , Principles of Political Economy with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy :
# (euphemistic) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining.
# (engineering) Removal of water from a river, lake, or aquifer.
A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life, as a hermit's abstraction ; the withdrawal from one's senses.
The act of focusing on one characteristic of an object rather than the object as a whole group of characteristics; the act of separating said qualities from the object or ideas.
* W. Hamilton, in Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic (1860), Lecture XXXV,
The act of comparing commonality between distinct objects and organizing using those similarities; the act of generalizing characteristics; the product of said generalization.
An idea or notion of an abstract or theoretical nature.
Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects; preoccupation.
(art) An abstract creation, or piece of art; qualities of artwork that are free from representational aspects.
(chemistry) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation.
An idea of an unrealistic or visionary nature.
The result of mentally abstracting an idea; the results of said process.
(geology) The merging of two river valleys by the larger of the two deepening and widening so much so, as to assimilate the smaller.
(computing) Any generalization technique that ignores or hides details to capture some kind of commonality between different instances for the purpose of controlling the intellectual complexity of engineered systems, particularly software systems.
(computing) Any intellectual construct produced through the technique of abstraction.
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The image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.
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, chapter=5 Particularly, construction of false images; fantasizing.
Creativity; resourcefulness.
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion; an imagining; something imagined.
* 1597 , Francis Bacon, "Of Youth and Age", Essays :
As nouns the difference between abstraction and imagination
is that abstraction is the act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away while imagination is the image-making power of the mind; the act of creating or reproducing ideally an object not previously perceived; the ability to create such images.abstraction
English
Noun
- The cancelling of the debt would be no destruction of wealth, but a transfer of it: a wrongful abstraction of wealth from certain members of the community, for the profit of the government, or of the tax-payers.
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- Abstraction is no positive act: it is simply the negative of attention.
- Abstraction is necessary for the classification of things into genera and species.
- to fight for mere abstractions .
Antonyms
* (the act of generalization) specialization * (mentally abstracting) concretizationDerived terms
* abstractional * abstractionism * abstractionist * abstractiveExternal links
* * * *Glossary of Water Terms, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
References
imagination
English
Noun
(en noun)- Imagination is one of the most advanced human faculties.
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- You think someone's been following you? That's just your imagination .
- His imagination makes him a valuable team member.
- And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
