nonabstruse

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A form of non-abstruse — Not abstruse; easily understood.

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adjectivenonabstruse (comparative more nonabstruse, superlative most nonabstruse)

comparative more nonabstruse · superlative most nonabstruse

  1. alternativeAlternative form of non-abstruse.

    […] contain material that helps us fill out Hume's views in ethics, as well as giving us instances of his experimentation in nonabstruse styles of writing on moral matters.

    2013, Lawrence C. Becker, Charlotte B. Becker, Encyclopedia of Ethics
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    But of course Spinozism in an empiricist mode is Spinozism with a considerable difference, as ethics written in Hume's preferred nonabstruse style (and increasingly nonabstruse from Treatise to Essays and Enquiries) sets a different tone from ethics in ordine geometrico.

    1993, Annette C. Baier, “David Hume, Spinozist”, in Hume Studies, volume 19

    Written in an easy-to-read, mathematically nonabstruse tone, this book aims to provide a gentle introduction to deep learning for computer vision, while still covering the basics in ample depth.

    2017, Ragav Venkatesan, Baoxin Li, Convolutional Neural Networks in Visual Computing

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