Abstraction

abstraction
noun

  1. the quality of dealing with ideas rather than events.
  2. freedom from representational qualities in art.
  3. a state of preoccupation.
  4. the process of considering something independently of its associations, attributes, or concrete accompaniments.
To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. Sun Tzu’s The Art of War