Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Abstraction" in English language version.
[...] metaphor is mostly produced by the gradual fading of the colours of our percepts, and even by the vanishing of the outlines of their shadows, i.e. of our concepts. This gives us abstract, hence general names, and these general names , without any metaphorical effort, become applicable to a large number of new objects, and are afterwards called metaphors. [...] metaphor is but a new side of abstraction and generalisation, the vital principles of all thought and of all language.
Abstracting is a mechanism by which an infinite variety of experiences can be mapped on short noises (words).
[...] 'history' is not a given, not merely a catalog of everything that has happened in the past, but a deliberate attempt of abstraction in which we separate out important from unimportant events.
Scrutiny of the idea of the market will reveal that behind the category 'the market' lies abstraction upon abstraction.
[...] the concept of abstraction to which business and money belong. [...] the business is allowed to function as an abstraction [...].
