Dialogue

 1 Intro|           seriously affected by the abstract idea of necessity; or though
 2 Intro|            like Bacon, to criticize abstract notions, might not extend
 3 Intro|             irreconcilable with the abstract Pantheism of the Eleatics.
 4 Intro|            only relates to our most abstract notions, and in no way interferes
 5 Intro|       becoming,’ ‘the finite,’ ‘the abstract,’ in which the negative
 6 Intro|       classes of Not-being with the abstract notion. As the Pre-Socratic
 7 Intro|         statements of opinion, with abstract principles. But objects
 8 Intro|       opinion must be verified; the abstract principles must be filled
 9 Intro|       Sophist Plato begins with the abstract and goes on to the concrete,
10 Intro|            another, demanded a more abstract and perfect conception,
11 Intro|           of knowledge more or less abstract were gradually developed.
12 Intro| understanding is strong in a single abstract principle and with this
13 Intro|           mind from the dominion of abstract ideas. We acknowledge his
14 Intro|      preferring the concrete to the abstract, in setting actuality before
15 Intro|          before Christ,—the want of abstract ideas. Nor must we forget
16 Intro|           an appeal to one-sided or abstract principles. In this age
17 Intro|          mankind regard only in the abstract. There is much to be said
18  Soph|           being, for to speak of an abstract something naked and isolated