a mental process that isolates naturally occurring forms from their spatial context in order to consider them independently as self-contained objects
a form of reasoning which assumes discontinuity between material things and space and so divides or integrates reality into isolated units or portions or isolated units
abstract concept in which something is required to change in order to conform to constraints imposed by something else
shaping of different kinds of natural occurrence in each others’ influence – for example a river system simultaneously shaping and being shaped by landscape