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Abstract domain

A domain which is not directly grounded in embodied experience and thus stands in contrast to a basic domain. Abstract domains include marriage, love or mediaeval musicology. Although such domains are ultimately derived from embodied experience, they are more complex in nature. For instance, our knowledge of love may involve knowledge relating to basic domains, such as directly embodied experiences like touch, sexual relations and physical proximity, and may also involve knowledge relating to abstract domains, such as experience of complex social activities like marriage ceremonies, hosting dinner parties and so on.

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