Abstraction vs Perspective - What's the difference?
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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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A view, vista or outlook.
The appearance of depth in objects, especially as perceived using binocular vision.
The technique of representing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
(figuratively) The choice of a single angle or point of view from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience.
The ability to consider things in such relative perspective
A perspective glass.
* Bishop Joseph Hall
A sound recording technique to adjust and integrate sound sources seemingly naturally.
of, in or relating to perspective
(obsolete) providing visual aid; of or relating to the science of vision; optical
As nouns the difference between abstraction and perspective
is that abstraction is the act of abstracting, separating, withdrawing, or taking away; withdrawal; the state of being taken away while perspective is a view, vista or outlook.As an adjective perspective is
of, in or relating to perspective.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
perspective
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* linear perspective * metaperspective * microperspective * put something into perspectiveAdjective
(en adjective)- a perspective drawing
- (Francis Bacon)