Sentences with phrase «abstract notions»

Except that it isn't easy to find appropriate symbols, at least those that can work as icons, for abstract notions or large social institutions (which may be the same thing, now that I come to think about it).

Quite apart from anything else interventions that use uncertain abstract notions of social cost won't support the public consent required for the necessary long - term interventions and sound public policy.

It is the right of Harry Twinotter and Robert I Ellison to avoid translating their abstract notions into specific projects.

Departing from a number of important historical works, the exhibition presents a network of interdependent topical themes such as consumerism, value circulation, trade routes, and also how these abstract notions influence the individual's experience within a natural and urban environment.

Chinese writing evolved through the development of pictographs (which depicted objects) or ideographs (which represented abstract notions) and the bronze sculptures from the artist's series Sages» Sayings derive from these ancient forms.

It was focusing on more abstract notions of self - portraiture by artists such as Sarah Sze, Sean Snyder, and Vibeke Tandberg.

Leander Knust's practice incorporates important yet abstract notions of origin and purpose, nature and artifice.

Other works take on abstract notions like time, unpredictability, chance and illusion.

Naturally, data geeks want to quantify abstract notions like «expectations,» and see exactly what they are.

«The dilemmas of race in America have been understood in terms of abstract notions of equality and justice.

On another hand, this film showcases my home landscape beautifully, despite gazing at its underbelly, with time to reflect on some of the more abstract notions of childhood.

While the vast majority of dating sites are built upon abstract notions and compatibility calculations, the premise behind Opposites Connect and its proprietary matchmaking software is to spark thought - provoking conversation and debate between two people with unique sets of viewpoints and characteristics.

The article identifies a trend whose importance extends beyond abstract notions of equity, Rexrode adds.

These are not merely abstract notions for any of us who have served in concrete pastoral ministry.

The result will not be abstract notions but an appeal to the imagination to help it reproduce the integrated picture of a character.

Nonetheless, legal citizenship «means something more than a formality... it becomes the primary identity... the primary basis on which government policy is evaluated, as opposed to abstract notions of globalism.»

In comparison, gun control advocates are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies by engaging more actively in advocacy work, which could make the gun control movement feel more relatable.

Gun control advocates, meanwhile, are motivated by more abstract notions of reducing gun violence — although, Goss noted, the victims of mass shootings and their families have begun putting a face on these policies.

If lower oil prices are as bad for Canada's economy as rate - cutting Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz insists, the central bank might consider assessing the risks to the economy in a world where constraining carbon emissions becomes less of an abstract notion and more of a daily reality.

Oh go eat it, the love that people have actually experienced in their lives is so much more real than the abstract notion of an afterlife.

Further, by defining the God of all as an abstract, universal notion, Walker reduces the actuality of the oppressor to an abstract notion.

By Hartshornean definition, this is very easy to prove because the concrete is always more inclusive than a merely abstract notion.

In other words, either the abstract notion of «momentary selves» or the more concrete notion of what I have called a series of interrelated psychophysical «event - cells.»

If the question is to believe in the abstract notion of god, I would agree since it is impossible to measure something that is by definition immeasurable.

But if, as Guelzo writes, Royce built up a «vision of a «Blessed Community» aligned with God,» it is an abstracted notion of community grounded in a philosophically individualized epistemology.

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

The Need for a New Synthesis In our new world of scientific insight it is no good relying on the unmodified philosophy of the ancient Greeks with its abstract notion of truth and static concept of nature.

Even loving my abstract notion of «enemies» (the Taliban, Osoma Bin Laden, etc.) is easy.

Whitehead can only use «overlapping» when he has got an abstract notion of an event.

If one were to stick to the abstract notion of despair, without thinking of any concrete despairer, one might say that it is an immense advantage.

In addition, good choices are hard to make when you are dealing with an abstract notion of what your child will mean to you.

The psychology of belonging inherent in ethnic nationalism is one of deep commitment and bias towards a romanticized and abstract notion of the «people».

This was a very abstract notion, but the idea was the higher up you went in the pyramid, the easier it would be to translate to a new language, and then you'd go down again.

If it were an abstract notion, who'd care?

CROSSWALK — The thought of infidelity becoming an Internet industry is not just an abstract notion.

«Funny Games» represents the laborious execution of an abstract notion.

Equality is an abstract notion steeped in natural law.

Program leaders steeped in the principles of anti-bias education are able to see diversity as an organizational asset and work intentionally and strategically to make the abstract notion of social justice come alive throughout the program.

On the one hand, it's a sort of intellectual parlor game: who can come up with the best theory regarding the highly abstract notion of consciousness?

You can choose whether to write concrete definition essay, which is an essay devoted to defining some concrete object, as, for example, a computer, a flower, or a pen or to write abstract definition essay, which deals with some abstract notion as friendship, sorrow, or love.

It's Monopoly money, at best... Ironically, the less you care about money, and profits & losses, the more abstract the notion of fear & greed will become — you'll become far more rational & effective in your investment decision - making.

Negative interest rates seem like an abstract notion.

Unique artwork adorns what solid wall space there is, while the front facade of the living pavilion is an abstract notion of floor - to - ceiling glass doors and windows that remain open to the elements.

Valuable and renowned artworks line much of what solid wall space there is, while the front facade of the living pavilion is an abstract notion of floor - to - ceiling glass doors and windows that remain open to the elements.

Matthias Neumann — bench V (basics), 2016 «bench V (basics)» is a site - specific installation that continues a body of work under the title «basics,» exploring an abstracted notion of form, material, space and utility.

Amid the many visual arts exhibitions and events this year commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Singapore's independence, an upcoming exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery at Gillman Barracks seeks to explore the more abstract notion of artistic and creative autonomy in the city - state at this momentous juncture in its history.

In Saint Sebastian, 2007, Ofili further integrates the abstract notion of time into his sculptural practice, managing to capture the fleeting moments of transition and liminality of his subject.

How did we decide to structure the abstract notion of time?

With an aesthetic reminiscent of Japanese woodblock prints, art nouveau, surrealism, and street art, Tudor's work depicts abstracted notions of nature, pulling patterns from the micro to the macro universe.

In other words, this isn't some abstract notion that may affect people that aren't even born yet.