Prescisive abstraction
Prescisive abstraction or
prescision, variously spelled as
precisive abstraction or
prescission, is a formal operation that marks, selects, or singles out one feature of a concrete experience to the disregard of others.
The above definition is adapted from the one given by
Charles Peirce (CP 4.235, "The Simplest Mathematics" (1902), in
Collected Papers, CP 4.227-393).
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Peirce, C.S.,
Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1-6,
Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7-8,
Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931-1935, 1958.
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Hypostatic abstraction*
Hypostatic object
