Sentences with phrase «intellectual construct»

I was particularly concerned with the intersection of intellectual constructs and particular social conflicts.

Scientific objects — atoms, etc — are not basic, but are derivative, intellectual constructs invented to assist us to understand events.

Since language is not, like mathematics, a purely imaginative intellectual construct, but is a means for understanding the real world, its patterns must in some sense represent the way things really are.

He criticized most of the organizers as conservatives who care more about «their own intellectual constructs» than the «voice of the people.»

Morris has organized several exhibitions that explored issues related to feminism and its impact as a social, political, and intellectual construct on the development of visual culture — among them Decoys, Complexes and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s at the Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York, and Gloria and Regarding Gloria at White Columns, New York.

As Tom puts it, life is not this great intellectual construct.

Rather it is to suggest that Sherburne's type of analysis invests primary confidence in an intellectual construct, the propositional feeling, and proceeds to examine the world on the basis of that construct, all in a way somewhat reminiscent of Descartes and of the eighteenth - century British empiricists.

That is to say, they create «a «representation» of the world, including the society itself and its place in this world... [which] is far from being an intellectual construct» (RI 152).

Outside of a intellectual construct used in economic theory.

He notes that the term invasive plant is an intellectual construct, reflecting cultural prejudices as well as scientific facts.

They will remember the lesson because they will have a sensory memory that includes smell and taste and touch, not just an intellectual construct.

These intellectual constructs serve as a point of departure for his subjective interpretations — his poetic statement.

The work flows as pure without emotional or intellectual constructs or concepts - the marks leading to the discovery of the picture that lies between the gestural and referential.

In depicting what can not be easily seen (space or eternity), Infinity Net paintings by Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929, Matsumoto, Japan) represent an intellectual construct.

They are intellectual constructs that don't give your soul much room to move around in.

I always wondered if this was an artifact of the means - to - an - end trade school mentality that most of these same students possessed, or if their supposed pragmatism was actually a facade erected to hide their genuine lack of curiosity and interest in the law as an intellectual construct.