#mental process

• Abstractive — Possessing the capacity, property, or tendency to abstract; relating to the mental process through which general and essential features of an object are extracted and isolated from particular ones. In linguistics, it describes grammatical or derivative mechanisms used to create names for abstract concepts.
• To abstract — To perform a mental operation of abstraction; to consciously isolate the essential, general, and common features of objects or phenomena, setting aside their secondary, concrete, or particular aspects. In a broad sense, to transform a real problem into a purely theoretical or conceptual model for easier analysis.
• Abstracting — Possessing the property, role, or tendency to abstract; isolating the essential and universal elements of a phenomenon from its particular and material forms. It describes an intellectual approach, an artistic style, or a linguistic tool focused on conceptualization and schematization rather than the exact reproduction of empirical reality.
• Abstraction — The mental operation or process through which the essential is separated from the non-essential, extracting the general and common features of a class of objects while ignoring their particular, concrete, or accidental traits. In computer science, it denotes the technique of hiding complex implementation details behind a simple interface, facilitating software development.
• To abstract — To mentally separate the essential and general characteristics of an object or phenomenon from those that are secondary, particular, or material; to perform an operation of abstraction. When used as a reflexive verb (a se abstrage), it defines the psychological or behavioral action of intentionally isolating oneself from immediate reality, the social environment, or external issues to focus exclusively on one's own thoughts.
• Self-negation — The act of self-denying and its result; a structural or psychic process through which a subject, principle, or system negates its own validity, identity, or substance. In modern philosophical theories, it represents a crucial moment in the development of ideas, where internal contradiction becomes the engine of evolution, while clinically it is associated with severe emotional self-sabotage.