All are about buying into an abstract notion (the state, the club, the company), not just because it pays you, but because it matters in a more visceral sense.

More often, failure can come down to the abstract notion of a two-hour movie simply not marrying with the images a reader has carried around for days, weeks, months.

If the government imposes private sector salary scales based on an abstract notion of what's fair, the consumer no longer exercises sovereignty.

He devotes an entire chapter to the social sciences, arguing that by the end of the 1940s they had become fixated on an abstract notion of 'choice' and 'individual preference'.

However, a subsequent opinion of the same court emphasized that piercing could not take place merely to prevent an abstract notion of unfairness or injustice.