All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War
Abstraction
abstraction
noun
- the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
- freedom from representational qualities in art.
- a state of preoccupation.
- the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments.