Science and Abstraction

Humana Mente 5 (17):84-93 (1930)
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It is not only in science that abstraction is found as a method of dealing with the world, and we may profitably begin by showing its wide use in ordinary practical life

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10.1017/s0031819100010780

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IX.—The Fruitfulness of the Abstract.N. Kemp Smith - 1928 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 28 (1):203-220.

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