Sentences with word «abstractness»

There is no absolute standard of «concrete» description against which to measure the degree of abstractness of other descriptions.

Entitled Concept 1, it was first released in Hawtin in 1996 as «a series of minimalistic tracks that pursue ideas concerning rhythmic abstractness in music».

It is exactly this — intelligent thought — that provides for the linking processes that conjoin and mediate between experiential concreta and ideational abstractness.

The point is that in the realm of informational abstractness products can escape the limitations of their (invariably relativized) productive origins.

The restrictive abstractness of the predicative pattern, and the abstract definiteness of the indicative logical subjects provide the necessary indeterminacy and determinacy for a proposition to be true or false.

Furthermore, the greater inclusiveness of a structure is purchased at the price of still greater abstractness.

My initial reaction to Edmund Waldstein's valuable review of Before Church and State was to marvel at the bold abstractness of his proposal, its proud irrelevance to the practical political problems we face today.

The excessive abstractness of the materialist view of physical reality lies partly in its unawareness of the dynamic constituency of even the most stationary solid object.

The level of abstractness Garland injects into «Annihilation» won't satisfy those seeking meaning in their extraterrestrial confrontations, but obscurity often leads to energizing intrigue and welcome speculation.

They certainly need work though — players initially find their simplicity and abstractness off - putting.

It's useful in the context of art history, the context of selling art — even in the context of Abcrit, the context of talking about art, trying to understand what art is, trying to understand what abstractness is — but in the Abcrit context the tag gets in the way as much as it helps.

Any newcomers to Merce Cunningham who visit the last performances ever in Britain of his modern dance company - renowned, even notorious, for its abstruse abstractness - will surely go away with an impression of laughter, playfulness, the lightness...

I miss the mushy subterranean rhythms and uncanny all - over abstractness of her work.

And this continuity confirmed the central premise of Greenbergian formalism: that all modern art mediums would be meekly reduced to their essences; for painting that meant abstractness, flatness and weightless color.

I don't necessarily think it is an impossibility, but sometimes, like Alan has implied, there can be a watered down semi abstractness which leaves you wanting more, (thinking of some, not all, by any means, of Joan Mitchell's paintings).

Or maybe it should be put the other way round: Stubbs's imagery seems constantly on the verge of converging into some form of cultural commentary, but the fundamental abstractness and even irrationality of his overlapping poured shapes seems calculated to prevent that — to insist on the painting as an agreement to disagree between wayward materials and stubborn intentionality.

«But he had an acute sense of the underlying abstractness.»

In other words, the painting retains figurative allusions in spite of its apparent abstractness.

Piero's abstractness acts as a conduit for magic; the «coolness» protects the work from lapsing into sentimentality.

I accept that I should expect any exact terms to be discussed between both parties, but I'd like to understand if I am obligated to an unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are presented to me or if there is enough abstractness to grant me leverage in negotiation.

This eminently desirable relation of process theology to this form of liberation theology, however, has not yet gone far to overcome the abstractness of process theology in relation to the political sphere.

The abstractness of information is something which, by its very nature, carries us outside the scheme of history.

«On the Abstractness of Human Concepts: Why It Would be Difficult to Talk to a Pigeon.»

It is a mistake, however, to overlook the notions of space and location: it is not necessary to leave these concepts to the abstractness of a static formal model or to unanalyzed technological «common sense.»

Relational power, in contrast to the abstractness of unilateral power, is concerned with the concrete life of the other, whether the other be an individual or a group.

So we sometimes have recourse, in Christian circles, to the «living Jesus» in order to overcome our sense of the abstractness, the remoteness, and the emptiness of what in truth is a living, concrete presence.

Indeed, though Hartshorne accepts the formula that metaphysics explores «being qua being,» 7 he holds that metaphysics is the theory of concreteness.8 The theory of concreteness will include a theory of abstractness, thus maintaining the crucial distinction between concrete and abstract.

One of the greatest strengths of process theology, as it is of process philosophy generally, is its consistent sensitivity to the difference the abstractness of concepts and the concreteness of experience and to the ways by which each side influences the other without supplanting it.

It is the level of abstractness and the absence of strategic clarification in the metaphysics of human process which quite literally shock.

But once we realize the abstractness and remoteness from experience of a materialistic cosmology, we must also question the validity of attempts to define personality or to ground its dignity apart from nature.

Nevertheless, the abstractness remains.

They also point to their abstractness, and the irony of their sway upon a pope who generally shows himself wary of pure «ideas.»

The third gift I have is taking the abstractness of energetic patterns and boiling them down into actionable steps and work.