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'''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.
 
'''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 Sanders Peirce]] (CP 4.235, "[[The Simplest Mathematics]]" (1902), in ''Collected Papers'', CP 4.227–393).
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The above definition is adapted from the one given by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] (CP 4.235, “[[The Simplest Mathematics]]” (1902), in ''Collected Papers'', CP 4.227–393).
  
 
==References==
 
==References==
  
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|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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* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|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.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==

Revision as of 21:50, 9 November 2015

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 Sanders Peirce (CP 4.235, “The Simplest Mathematics” (1902), in Collected Papers, CP 4.227–393).

References

  • 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.

See also