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 Peirce (CP 4.235, "The Simplest Mathematics" (1902), in Collected Papers, CP 4.227-393).

References

• 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

Abstraction | Logic | Mathematical logic