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'''Prescisive abstraction''' or '''prescision''', variously spelled as '''precisive abstraction''' or '''prescission''', is a formal operation that marks, selects, or singles out one feature of a concrete experience to the disregard of others.

The above definition is adapted from the one given by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]] (CP 4.235, "[[The Simplest Mathematics]]" (1902), in ''Collected Papers'', CP 4.227-393).

==References==

* [[Charles Sanders Peirce|Peirce, C.S.]], ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1-6, [[Charles Hartshorne]] and [[Paul Weiss]] (eds.), vols. 7-8, [[Arthur W. Burks]] (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931-1935, 1958.

==See also==

* [[Hypostatic abstraction]]
* [[Hypostatic object]]

[[Category:Abstraction]]
[[Category:Logic]]
[[Category:Mathematical logic]]

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