Sentences with phrase «explanation of this abstract concept»

I don't understand the explanation of this abstract concept.

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Thus there is a polarity in this concept of God: he is both abstract and concrete; he is both «eternal» and «everlasting»; he is both himself and yet endlessly related; he is both transcendent and immanent; he is both the chief principle of explanation and yet participant, working with, and influenced by, all that is to be explained.

One way follows the tendency of abstracting towards simplification, as this tendency appears preliminarily sketched in the psychogenetic development right down to the concept of «thing» and in the mechanization of the explanation.