prescisive abstraction
Prescisive abstraction or prescision, variously spelled as precisive abstraction and 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 derives from one given by Charles Sanders Peirce (CP 4.235) in the context of distinguishing two kinds of abstraction, the other being hypostatic abstraction.
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Peirce, Charles Sanders (1902), “The Simplest Mathematics”, CP 4.227–323 in 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. Cited as (CP volume.paragraph).
| Title | prescisive abstraction |
| Canonical name | PrescisiveAbstraction |
| Date of creation | 2013-03-22 17:54:03 |
| Last modified on | 2013-03-22 17:54:03 |
| Owner | Jon Awbrey (15246) |
| Last modified by | Jon Awbrey (15246) |
| Numerical id | 5 |
| Author | Jon Awbrey (15246) |
| Entry type | Definition |
| Classification | msc 03B42 |
| Classification | msc 03B15 |
| Classification | msc 03B22 |
| Classification | msc 03B30 |
| Classification | msc 03A05 |
| Classification | msc 00A30 |
| Synonym | simple abstraction |
| Related topic | HypostaticAbstraction |