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Oct 20, 2020 at 7:34 comment added bonna @EdwinAshworth. You are right, and I've edited the sentence to clarify that it is the definition of the verb abstract which I translate.
Oct 20, 2020 at 7:31 history edited bonna CC BY-SA 4.0
Clarified that it is the definition of abstract that is translated.
Oct 19, 2020 at 22:46 answer added jsw29 timeline score: 2
Oct 19, 2020 at 18:58 comment added Greybeard We move away from the specific mechanism and instead consider a general setting, where ...* Also "disregard / gloss over / set aside / put to one side the specific mechanism"
Oct 19, 2020 at 16:54 comment added Edwin Ashworth I'm not sure what 'In Danish, the verb abstract translates to "disregarding the subordinate details in an effort to build a general, overarching notion of something" ' means. // However, the way I'd put "disregard the subordinate details in an effort to build a general, overarching notion of something" is "give the quintessential details [of a matter]". Quintessence has meanings including 'central sense, essence' and 'a refined extract' (see Lexico). // 'Abstract away from' is at best unidiomatic.
Oct 19, 2020 at 16:13 answer added Tuffy timeline score: -1
Oct 19, 2020 at 12:13 comment added Kate Bunting In English, abstract in this sense refers to making a summary of a work such as a scientific paper so that a researcher will know whether it would be useful to read the whole thing. It doesn't have any connotations of refinement or purity.
Oct 19, 2020 at 11:14 history edited bonna CC BY-SA 4.0
added additional tag and tried to clarify my connotations of "disregard".
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