abstractableadj.
/əbˈstraktəbl/, U.S. /əbˈstræktəb(ə)l/, /æbˈstræktəb(ə)l/ Capable of being abstracted from something or someone, esp. capable of being treated separately or in the abstract. Also with from.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > [adjective] > performing abstraction > able to be abstracted
abstractible1814
abstractable1815
1815 Monthly Mag. Aug. 3/1 (orthographical word list) Abstractable, not Abstractible.
1835 True Sun 9 July They have invariably tended to abstract all that was abstractable, from those they were called upon..to protect.
1879 Mind 4 496 The power and method of co-ordination is not something abstractable from the phenomenon.
1893 W. James in Mind Oct. 509 I say that there must be some things whose resemblance is not based on such discernible and abstractable identity.
1958 D. J. Furley in A. D. Booth et al. Aspects Transl. 64 A poem has meaning in very many different ways..some may be abstractable only at the cost of others.
2005 L. Stillwaggon in M. S. Capcarrere et al. Adv. Artific. Life 55 One philosophical question..is whether personhood or consciousness is abstractable from the body in the same way that a program is abstractable from the machine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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