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Definition of Abstractional
1. a. Pertaining to abstraction.
Definition of Abstractional
1. Adjective. Pertaining to abstraction. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Abstractional
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstractional
Literary usage of Abstractional
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1873)
"It becomes in this manner our gospel; if not the expression of our face, the
abstractional form and framework we have gotten up to do the work required, ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"... rate a partial cause in structural and functional ones ; while older explanations
of these facts, even if not melting into merely abstractional ones, ..."
3. The Fortnightly Review (1868)
"In the course of his speculations he professes to pass from an abstractional to
a phenomenal point of view. "From the verge of the Infinite have I returned ..."
4. The Meaning of Truth: A Sequel to "Pragmatism," by William James (1909)
"... and the ‘logical' one is simply the ‘psychological' one disemboweled of its
fulness, and reduced to a bare abstractional scheme. A while ago a prisoner, ..."
5. The Methodist Review (1845)
"... while to bear in mind the origin of this doubt; that it forms a consistent
part of a system of philosophy, which, setting forth from the abstractional ..."
6. The History of Philosophy from Thales to Comte by George Henry Lewes (1867)
"Mr. Mill suggests, as less ambiguous, the terms volitional, abstractional, and
experiential. The first is the spontaneous and primitive condition of thought ..."
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