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Definition of Abstractest

1. abstract [adj] - See also: abstract

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractest

Literary usage of Abstractest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... except in their abstractest and vaguest features; and they must more and more abandon the old-fashioned, clear-cut, and would-be ‘scientific' form. ..."

2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"If well-assured 'tis but profanely bold In thought's abstractest forms to seem to see. It dare not dare the dread communion hold In ways unworthy Thee, ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1909)
"Hume pointed out that religion is irrational, even in its abstractest and most rational form, the belief of the deist in theoretical or ethical rationality. ..."

4. Original Narratives of Early American History by John Franklin Jameson, American Historical Association (1910)
"... mingled with mirth by the talk of those who presume "in thought's abstractest forms to seem to see"— and do not see as constituted authority sees. ..."

5. History of Ancient Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband (1899)
"... conclusions built upon them, but directly out of the abstractest metaphysical concepts and absolutely universal needs for the explanation of actuality. ..."

6. A Student's History of Philosophy by Arthur Kenyon Rogers (1921)
"Here, beginning with the abstractest concept possible — the concept of Being — Hegel tries to show that the categories, or thought terms, which we use in ..."

7. History of Ancient Philosophy by Wilhelm Windelband (1921)
"... or observations and the conclusions built t directly out of the abstractest metaphysical absolutely universal needs for the explanation Up to this point ..."

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