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abstract thought
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of a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- And as to ideas, entities, abstractions, and transcendentals, I could never drive the least conception into their heads.Part 2 — A Voyage to Brobdingnag (79% in)
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- There are some other articles; but these are the most important, of which I have read you an abstract.Part 1 — A Voyage to Lilliput (82% in)
- They were indeed excellent in two sciences for which I have great esteem, and wherein I am not unversed; but, at the same time, so abstracted and involved in speculation, that I never met with such disagreeable companions.Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (31% in)
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