Meaning of prescind | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
   intransitive
2. To pay exclusive attention to.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“In making real-world contracts with someone else, for whatever purpose, we expressly prescind from the other party's personal, private motivation. I may agree⟳ to mow your lawn for ten dollars because I like⟳ mowing lawns, because it is the only skill I possess⟳, because it is the only skill that anyone else is willing to purchase⟳ from me, and so endlessly on. But all you can demand⟳ from me is a mown lawn”

“But one cannot prescind from humanity. There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself.”

“The result⟳ of Attention, by concentrating the mind⟳ upon certain qualities, is thus to withdraw⟳ or abstract it from all else. In technical language, we are said to prescind the phenomena which we exclusively consider⟳. To prescind, to attend⟳, and to abstract, are merely different but correlative names for the same process⟳; and the first two are nearly convertible. When we are said to prescind a quality, we are merely supposed to attend⟳ to that quality exclusively.”

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