Sentences with phrase «for symbolic thought»

If so it would provide more evidence for the Neanderthal's capacity for symbolic thought.

This article was originally published with the title «Neandertal Symbolism: Evidence Suggests a Biological Basis for Symbolic Thought»

The next steps in the potty training process require your child to have the capacity for symbolic thought, planning or problem solving and memory.

If Neandertals did have the capacity for symbolic thinking — crucial for using drawings or language to represent ideas and objects — that ability may have developed at least 500,000 years ago in an ancestor shared with humans, the two research teams propose.

Not exact matches

«I do not think it is worth sacrificing future investment returns for an action that is simply symbolic,» he wrote.

What you think, your customers will not like same functionality for free or symbolic price?

I just don't see it as a big deal and I think it's a proper symbolic gesture of peace for those who died.

Nevertheless, by virtue of our collective human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own — human beings also transcend nature.

In this sense we say things like, «it is in the nature of human beings» or «it is natural for human beings» to, for example, conceive and be conceived in male - female coitus, nurse their young, employ productive and practical reason, desire to know, live in walkable settlements, think in symbolic narrative, live well, etc..

With some creative thinking, such symbolic rituals of death and resurrection could be performed in nearly all cultures for any burial ceremony.

He has experienced awe, the religious passion, during the dark vision between the sacrificial pieces; he has enacted the new covenant marked by (self --RRB- circumcision — a symbolic act of «partial sacrifice,» betokening dedication to God's ways; he has been God's partner in the judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, and in his own heart has accepted responsibility for (what he thought was) the «death» of Lot; he has beheld the wondrous birth of Isaac and endured the banishment of Ishmael.

He may also have thought that Whitehead's theism belonged with theism in general as a fallacious attempt to humanize the universe; for Santayana, though he saw theistic religion as possessing a type of poetic or symbolic truth, was, at the level of blunt factuality, an atheist.)

Later Christian thought found symbolic meanings in the three gifts: gold for Christ's royalty; incense for his priesthood; and myrrh for his burial; but here the gifts are simply appropriate to his status as the new king.

There are images of flames and burning in the NT, but these are often symbolic, I think, for something else.

The fact that we have to resort to symbolic language and commit ourselves to a relative perspective in our thinking about God is not a defect for which we need to apologize.

The separation of the two pure modes would then allow for focusing upon the actuality of this experience in the pure mode of causal efficacy rather than on the projected referents as we do in the normal thought processes of symbolic reference.

These may or may not be related to the grandiose civilizational patterns of the past, but they may exist in the symbolic universe of Dalits and Adivasis and thus provide an alternate model for thinking and living in the world of difference and variety.

In this vague field, more precisely, in these fields of experience, a highly organized, but as such scarcely reflected, not to mention questioned, thought mediates for common sense the image of an «exact world» which is certainly a symbolic world.

Do you think this was a good move for the Colts or just a symbolic firing to shake up things in what appears to be another dysfunctional front office?

(Putting up a pro-PR amendement is primarily a symbolic political act to keep the issue open; the question for all pro-PR forces will then be what to do about the referendum we are going to have, where most long - standing pro-PR groups campaigners think campaigning for a Yes is important.

«I think it's very symbolic in many ways more than it is financial,» said Jackie Hayes, a volunteer with New Sanctuary for Immigrants For The Capital Distrifor Immigrants For The Capital DistriFor The Capital District.

Most scientists thought that the capability for such symbolic thinking was unique to modern humans, but a new study suggests that it dates back to before the Neandertals.

He adds that the discovery also implies that the foundation for language was already in place that long ago, because assigning specific meanings to arbitrary words and sounds is «symbolic thinking by definition.»

Archaeological evidence now suggests they were capable of symbolic thought, had a basic knowledge of chemistry, medicine and cooking, and perhaps some capacity for speech.

«If we think about how people today use color, such as in clothing, flags, body decoration, among other things, it seems that color would have been procured and used for symbolic purposes,» Potts said.

Even though circumcision was a symbolic covenant, I don't think God would have the Jews do something negative or bad for them and in fact physically beneficial instead.

So, when he tosses out the notion of $ 20 billion for school choice, I don't think it's more than a short - lived symbolic gesture.

The most symbolic launch might be for the Black Forest, which is now thought to be the rumored 10 - inch PlayBook.

I am thinking the timer is more symbolic for the hunt period.

For example, I think of painting as a stage set on which symbolic action is performed.

The Post-Impressionist group the Nabis ended their correspondence between members signing, «E.T.P.M.V. et M.P.,» standing for a French phrase «En ta paume, mon verbe et ma pensée» («In the palm of your hand, my words and my thoughts»), emphasizing their interest in the symbolic resonance of their work.

The political black and white thinking of Bijl's earlier works and the symbolic search for structure seems to have completely vanished in these «times of blurry conflicts», as Bijl describes them.

Mythical and symbolic thinking strive to form spiritual bonds between humanity and the surrounding world, shaping distance into the space required for devotion and reflection: the distance undone -LSB-...]

For me, the process of «reading» becomes redundant when we think about how machines read and communicate through images and code — it's beyond how we relate to things and creates new ways for these to develop a language and go beyond our symbolic, basic understandiFor me, the process of «reading» becomes redundant when we think about how machines read and communicate through images and code — it's beyond how we relate to things and creates new ways for these to develop a language and go beyond our symbolic, basic understandifor these to develop a language and go beyond our symbolic, basic understanding.

But a good audience thinks about the cultural and symbolic value of this exchange where we can locate the truly elevating, transformative potential of art — the combustion chamber for emotional esthetic experience.

The problem is that symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by fooling ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.

«The problem, Harvard Professor Robert N. Stavins wrote for the Wall Street Journal, is: «Symbolic actions often substitute for truly effective actions by allowing us to fool ourselves into thinking we are doing something meaningful about a problem when we are not.»

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Symbolic play uses skills that provide the basis for the ability to organise play, think things through, and cope with feelings.