Adverb
In an abstract state or manner; separately; absolutely; by itself; as, matter abstractly considered.
Source: Webster's dictionaryNo matter how abstractly formulated are a general theory of systems, a general theory of evolution and a general theory of communication, all three theoretical components are necessary for the specifically sociological theory of society. They are mutually interdependent. Niklas Luhmann
The crucial question which confronts us in psychology and other aspects of the science of man is precisely this chasm between what is abstractly true and what is existentially real for the given living person. Rollo May
Hegel ... proceeds abstractly from the pre-existence of the intellect. ... He does not appeal to the intellect within us. Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
Not to mention the fact that of course terrorists hate freedom. I think they do hate. But believe me, I don't think they sit there abstractly hating freedom. Zbigniew Brzezinski
We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets. Friedrich Nietzsche
On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier. John Pople