Most scientists don't either, they just become familiar with manipulating their own abstract language as a useful way of organizing information.

In more abstract language, the spectral theorem is a statement about commutative C*-algebras.

The abstract language used by Hegel never allows one to interpret this story in a straightforward fashion.

Nor are they meant to be accessories to the text, making abstract language visually concrete.

It should be kept in mind, however, that poets do not hesitate to use abstract language when the situation or purpose calls for it.

"It's definitely got a lot of metaphors and abstract language, but if you're paying close attention you would hear certain political leaning," she said.

The wavefunction (or state vector, in the more abstract language) plays a fundamental role.

The abstract language of the current debate is increasingly, and obviously, inconsistent with what we are seeing with our own eyes.

The meeting's detached and abstract language, though, has not lived up to that mandate.

If we had only the story of Bridgman and how she mastered language, including abstract language, that would already be interesting enough.