real abstraction – embodied in money – and constitutes a social a priori which reflects itself in the conceptual … abstraction, i.e., in the abstract thought typical of commodity-producing societies: philosophy (in ancient Greece) and modern … abstraction with the sphere of circulation results in the ontologization of labor which, on the contrary, is a capitalist …

critical realism correctly poses the need for realistic abstraction, critical realism fails to deliver because it does not … offer any aid towards systematic abstraction (despite proponents’ claims to the contrary). The application of critical … critical realism corrupts an approach (appropriately termed ‘system abstraction’) which can genuinely aid the development of …

/methodology/approach – Attention is drawn to a 1785 article on abstraction by Thomas Reid and the contents and theories of the article are explained …

for preference-making and based on a real dimension should be extended for abstraction-making by adding a visible … holograms, etc.) appear as generalizable to cognitive processes at work when redesigning a decidable space by abstraction (like …