Give me a reason, not a philosophical abstraction.

Distinction, the fundamental philosophical abstraction, involves the recognition of difference.

As a philosophical abstraction, goodness represents a hope that natural love be continuous, expansive, and all-inclusive.

However, he's too steeped in traditional values and philosophical abstractions to translate his dreams into reality.

Courthouses with their philosophical abstractions seem to be a magnet for murals.

Providentia was an important moral and philosophical abstraction in Roman discourse.

Through the essay he sticks to philosophical abstractions concerning Stoic precepts of life and death.

The visual imagery and the philosophical abstractions merge into nonlinear theater.

Her thoughts run deeper than his, encompassing the nature of values, of desire and feeling as philosophical abstractions.