Abstraction of Philosophy

Abstraction in philosophy is the process of forming a concept by identifying common features

among a group of individuals, or by ignoring unique aspects of these individuals. The notion of
abstraction is important to understanding some philosophical controversies surrounding empiricism and
the problem of universals. Metonymy, in linguistics, refers to the use of the same sorts of nouns that
signify concrete objects to refer to abstract concepts, and is found in many languages, including English.
In the psychology of Carl Jung, abstraction refers to the processing of a particular experience exclusively
by one of the following four psychological functions: sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking—which
would normally function in relation to each other.

The God of philosophy is a God whose believers must defend his existence using human reason. He is
such relatively abstract things as God the designer, God the necessarily existent, God the uncaused first
cause, God who has the problems of evil, foreknowledge of free choice, and competing religions.

JONALYN V. BAÑARES
BSCS 3A