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Abstract idea

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etc. See under Abstract, Association, etc.

See also: Idea



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I cannot by any effort of thought conceive the abstract idea above described.
But a command is an abstract idea, and it seemed a sort of "lesser marvel" till it flashed upon me that it involved the concrete existence of a ship.
He was painted and padded, wigged and dressed, to represent the abstract idea of a male human being of five-and twenty in robust health.
 
 
 
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