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Architecture and Abstraction (Writing Architecture)
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avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published
Brain Computation as Hierarchical Abstraction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 20 ratings — published 2015
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,845 ratings — published 1984
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 22,289 ratings — published 1921
Torture Concrete: Jean-Luc Moulène and the Protocol of Abstraction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 36 ratings — published 2018
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 433,309 ratings — published 1972
The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 31 ratings — published 2019
The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx's Capital (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 39 ratings — published
The Sovereignty of Good (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,319 ratings — published 1970
Philosophy of Mathematics (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.77 — 141 ratings — published
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 164 ratings — published 2008
Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings, 1987–2007 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 1,251 ratings — published 2011
In Praise of Mathematics (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 209 ratings — published 2015
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 24,382 ratings — published 1936
Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism (World Philosophies)
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avg rating 4.48 — 100 ratings — published 2016
Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories (Writing Architecture)
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avg rating 4.07 — 43 ratings — published 1995
Scandals and Abstraction: Financial Fiction of the Long 1980s (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 6 ratings — published 2014
The Accursed Share: An Essay on General Economy, Volume I: Consumption (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 2,209 ratings — published 1949
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style (Elephant Paperbacks)
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avg rating 3.87 — 185 ratings — published 1907
Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 3,080 ratings — published 2018
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 4,743 ratings — published 2023
I Am a Strange Loop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 8,630 ratings — published 2007
The Ways Top Thinkers THINK--6 New Foundations of Thought from Top Thinkers, IMPROVED (Same Ideas, Better Formats): Top Ones Out-think Most of Us--THESE WAYS
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
From Mathematics to Generic Programming (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 214 ratings — published 2014
Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 245 ratings — published 2004
Mathematical Concepts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 2015
Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming: Languages, Semantics, Inference and Learning (River Publishers Series in Software Engineering)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 65 ratings — published 2012
The Violence of Abstraction : The Analytic Foundations of Historical Materialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 38 ratings — published 1987
Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art : Practices and Debates)
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avg rating 3.89 — 56 ratings — published 1993
Conquest of Abundance: A Tale of Abstraction versus the Richness of Being (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 95 ratings — published 1999
Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 2,999 ratings — published 2010
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 23,273 ratings — published 1967
Surfacing (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 28,553 ratings — published 1972
After World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.28 — 1,018 ratings — published 2023
How to Make Sense of Any Mess (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.85 — 1,597 ratings — published 2014
The Container Principle: How a Box Changes the Way We Think (Infrastructures)
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avg rating 3.76 — 21 ratings — published 2015
Natural Reality and Abstract Reality: An Essay in Trialogue Form/1919-1920 (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 62 ratings — published 1995
The Joy of Abstraction: An Exploration of Math, Category Theory, and Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 174 ratings — published
Abstraction in Contemporary Photography (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Pilgrim in the Microworld (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 147 ratings — published 1983
Bigger Than Life: The Close-Up and Scale in the Cinema (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 9 ratings — published
Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 194 ratings — published 1976
The Production of Space (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 2,233 ratings — published 1974
The Natural Contract (Studies In Literature And Science)
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avg rating 3.86 — 185 ratings — published 1990
Flow Chart (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 265 ratings — published 1991
Tape for the Turn of the Year (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 163 ratings — published 1965
Pierre Reverdy (NYRB Poets)
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avg rating 4.30 — 202 ratings — published 2013
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding 1, Books 1-2 (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.72 — 116 ratings — published 1689
“If you want to influence a country’s intellectual trend, the first step is to bring order to your own ideas and integrate them into a consistent case. Knowledge necessarily includes the ability to apply abstract principles in specific issues, to demonstrate them, and to advocate a consistent course of action.
What is required is honesty - intellectual honesty, which consists in knowing what one does know, constantly expanding one’s knowledge, and never evading or failing to correct a contradiction”
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What is required is honesty - intellectual honesty, which consists in knowing what one does know, constantly expanding one’s knowledge, and never evading or failing to correct a contradiction”
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“Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle. All sciences are differentiated by their abstraction.”
― Life Is Worth Living
― Life Is Worth Living
