Sentences with phrase «more of an abstract thought»

@Tyler Weinrich This is just more of an abstract thought process because I don't really know any specifics:

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However, as we began to unpack the terminology, examine the practical implications of discussing it as a preeminent cultural construct versus an abstract idea and thought more deeply about how we would actually define it, the idea of Christian Privilege became more amorphous.

Although we see minimal distortion of orthodox process thought by our change, we do notice that it has informed our position on the nature of mass primarily through the interplay of the «more» and «less» abstract prehensions during the process of concrescence.

Then, pious as it is to think of Him, while the pageant of experiment or abstract reasoning passes by, still such piety is nothing more than a poetry of thought, or an ornament of language, a certain view taken of Nature which one man has and another has not, which gifted minds strike out, which others see to be admirable and ingenious, and which all would be the better for adopting.

Imagination binds together what the thinking separates; or, more precisely, it maintains the original unity of the elements separated by abstract thought.

It can, I think, be argued that even the understanding of a purely formal system in mathematics or logic is a valuational activity, involving a qualitative sense of the significance of the elements of the system and their relation.6 If this is so with respect to the most abstract thought, however, is it not even more clearly the case when we consider the development, control, or understanding of a technological device or system?

Professor Flechsig of Leipzig (who perhaps more than any one may claim to have made the subject his own) considers that in other special convolutions those processes of association go on, which permit the more abstract processes of thought, to take place.

But, as this is a very abstract argument, I think it will help its effect to say a word or two about the more concrete conditions of the case.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

Teaching methods utilized in Grades 6 - 8 are similar to those used in the lower grades, yet topics and methods are tailored toward the emerging adolescent capable of more abstract thinking.

I welcome these changes and agree with Angie about the art categories being difficult — I make embroidered and appliqué artworks which I guess should be classed as textile art, but I do think textile art is considered by buyers to be more specialised (and also more abstract) than my pictures, which puts me in the strange position of not wanting to call my pictures textile art, as I think people have preformed opinions of what textile art is.

By the time kids are teenagers, they're able to think about what's best in a much broader, more abstract way, and they're more capable of making their own decisions (not all the time, but most of the time).

Simultaneous equations require more abstract thought, and a measure of logic, which for most children won't be well - developed until at least age 11 or 12.

Hi Stan, I think you and I disagree even more deeply than that — I'm not in favor of budget cuts for the cutting's sake, only in favor of funding programs we need and not ones we don't (in the abstract — the real world of politics is far too messy for such an innocent construction).

At some point in his life, the First Man reasoned about ways to improve the productivity of his Labor towards meeting the bare necessities of life to free up some of his time for leveraging his human capacity for abstract thought towards Capital purposes, which could be used to improve productivity further which would free up more time which would etc, etc, etc..

The fact that they could do so suggests that the ability to think in an abstract way may be more common in nature than we might expect, and not just restricted to humans and a handful of animals with big brains.

Nicky Clayton at the University of Cambridge, UK, says the study shows that young chicks are capable of abstract relational thought: «The fact that young chicks can do this suggests this ability is more widespread across the animal kingdom than previously thought, and emerges earlier in development than expected.»

Those who were vividly primed by thoughts of their own death in flames, however, were even more generous than those primed in a more subtle and abstract way.

Again, the left brain, which benefits from modules that enable abstract thinking, verbal coding, and much more, does not have the module to take into account the intentions of others.

It is easy to think of concrete activities when looking for good habits to form, but more abstract ones like creativity can be formed too.

- When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

At this level of complexity, students must use planning and evidence, and thinking is more abstract.

Research by several other students is revealing that middle - school science students solve abstract problems more easily by thinking in terms of metaphors or models — for instance, by using a nail, a wire, and a battery as a model of how magnetism works.

But, on the other hand, they used a lot of very different language, more abstract, more challenging to children - so I think that might be one of the reasons why it had such a big impact on children's language and cognitive development.

Instead of counting lined up objects on a table, children count pictures on a wall, which builds more abstract thinking.

While number lines are well - suited to the type of thinking that the Common Core asks students to do, number lines are much more abstract concepts than the using physical objects.

The following are common characteristics of gifted children, although not all will necessarily apply to every gifted child: • Has an extensive and detailed memory, particularly in a specific area of interest • Has advanced vocabulary for his or her age; uses precocious language • Has communication skills advanced for his or her age and is able to express ideas and feelings • Asks intelligent and complex questions • Is able to identify the important characteristics of new concepts and problems • Learns information quickly • Uses logic in arriving at common sense answers • Has a broad base of knowledge; a large quantity of information • Understands abstract ideas and complex concepts • Uses analogical thinking, problem solving, or reasoning • Observes relationships and sees connections • Finds and solves difficult and unusual problems • Understands principles, forms generalizations, and uses them in new situations • Wants to learn and is curious • Works conscientiously and has a high degree of concentration in areas of interest • Understands and uses various symbol systems • Is reflective about learning • Is enraptured by a specific subject • Has reading comprehension skills advanced for his or her age • Has advanced writing abilities for his or her age • Has strong artistic or musical abilities • Concentrates intensely for long periods of time, particularly in a specific area of interest • Is more aware, stimulated, and affected by surroundings • Experiences extreme positive or negative feelings • Experiences a strong physical reaction to emotion • Has a strong affective memory, re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event

In order to get my students thinking in more abstract and artistic ways, and to help me think about how to engage more of the school community with this project, I spoke with my school's art teacher, Christina, who traded spots with me for a day to lead a session for my class on conceptual art and technique.

But while observers think it's promising that many lawmakers are now recognizing the importance of social and emotional skills, many are worried that measuring whether students have become more persistent, resilient or compassionate could be much more difficult and more politically fraught than testing whether kids can read and simplify polynomials, and that the science for holding schools accountable for these important, but more abstract skills just isn't there yet.

Now when creators can start making enough money off of digital - only comics to think about them in more abstract ways, we may see some really interesting products show up.

The war atrocities and the losses of the characters were difficult in a different way — they were very sad and awful to think about, but they were concrete and clear, so easier to comprehend in a way than the more abstract parts of the book.

Unfortunately, I don't think Amazon has a good idea of the community of readers / writers, except as viewed through the abstract lens of statistics and used to sell more books right now rather than develop a long term plan which will encourage writing, reading and purchasing of books over the long run.

I think that's like a Naum Gabo sculpture, I know there are a lot of arguments about whether geometry is abstract, that sort of thing — but that feels like a more abstract sculpture in certain senses.

He used the other word [leg] which we were not going to use, but I think the character of that to these other elements is very interesting, but I wouldn't say one is necessarily more abstract than the other.

If you think «Eight Movements,» the title of Liat Yossifor's latest exhibition of paintings, sounds more like the title of a Philip Glass recording or the latest release by Steve Reich, you're already onto the idea behind the Israeli artist's stark and highly textural abstract works.

«She really helped pull art out of the angst and trauma of the abstract expressionists, the wartime generation, and into a lighter, more lyrical kind of modernism,» says Betsy Broun, who directs the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. «I think it was a relief, a liberation.»

«In that first painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought of as the coldness of Minimalism and the more emotional, abstract expressionist painting style I'd grown up with.

Thinking about issues of global awareness, Kunik's first body of abstract paintings dealt with the environment; more specifically rain forest deforestation.

«In that first [spot] painting, I was wrestling with what I originally thought of as the coldness of Minimalism and the more emotional, abstract expressionist painting style I'd grown up with.

I think there is a lot more potential to new abstract sculpture than the vicarious physicality of kinaesthesia, and we should not over-simplify or take lightly these new problems.

Bringing together three painters with distinct oeuvres — that have been, at times, linked to the legacy of German painting, or even of Albert Oehlen himself — the panel will consider abstract painting in relation to other contemporary manifestations of abstraction in economics (market speculation), philosophy (anti-essentialist thought, questions around the structure of time, semiotics), digital culture (sampling, rendering), and aesthetics more generally (considerations of form, the notion of style).

Because Matta (1911 - 2002) persisted in creating representational imagery, however abstracted, and lived in Europe and South America from the 1950s on, his New York profile faded to the point where, starting in the 1970s, he was thought of more often as Gordon Matta - Clark's father than as a living artist.

The pieces in Push Play fillet consumer culture and generate more critical thinking and a sense of cooperation than, say, an abstract painting might.

Similarly, Korean painters independently developed an abstract practice similar to the abstract expressionism that took hold in Post-war U.S., but reflecting a more Confucian approach to the sort of meaninglessness such work is thought to convey, following the Korean war.

I think it's easier to explore a vast array of interpretations within more abstract, yes.

But his question wasn't wrong per se — it just didn't have much to do with the achievement of his exhibition, which takes a more interesting, less expected tack: Garrels asked six abstract painters working in the United States to «select one or two of their own recent paintings to be shown with works by other artists who have had a significant impact on their thinking and the development of their own work.»

It is a well - known fact that abstract expressionism was more inspired by the thoughts and art of the East Asian region.

Research has shown that people are more comfortable with figurative art than with abstract initially — of course that can change over time — when I learned that and looked at the collection, it was almost all abstract painting, and I thought we might be alienating, there need to be more entry points,» says Roberts.

I think probably that Jasper was more responsible for the rapid ending of abstract expressionism than anybody else, more than Bob Rauschenberg, I would say.

Being open ended, the phrases did not convey a clear message but rather gave food for thought to the viewer which gave them a highly contemplative and poetic quality, which merges this body of work into the more abstract future series of paintings that the current lot belongs to.