abstract
adjective
thought of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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But in this case I am abstracting from considerations of that sort, and also from the factor of risk.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson