Sentences with phrase «abstract conception»

The works featured in Turn - Based Press, complementary to the collaborative installation in Dimensions Variable, focus on concrete compositions and abstract conceptions of place and space.

Each passage brings enough explanation for the viewer to understand even the most abstract conceptions, whilst also permitting the reader enough space to interpret their own meanings and continue with their passage through the publication.

Enjoying an intimate acquaintance with all their particularities in turn, he would naturally regard an abstract conception in which these were unified as a thing more misleading than enlightening.

He affirms life rather than any abstract conception, and in this respect he is much like Charlie's friend and mentor, Humboldt.

(The key point for both Maritain and Gilson was the apprehension of the «act of existence» itself — the question whether or not a thing really exists, and how, not merely the general or abstract conception of it in the mind.)

But, in an earlier review, Hartshorne points out that even phenomenologists have failed to be sufficiently concrete in interpreting experience, and have tended to employ traditional and abstract conceptions, to the neglect of such ideas as feeling, willing, valuing, loving, and hating.

We are today urged to embrace an abstract conception of human nature that ignores the reality of our bodies.