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copy text from [http://www.opencycle.net/ OpenCycle] of which Jon Awbrey is the sole author
'''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]]
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]]