Sentences with phrase «of abstract concepts rather»

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Images and patterns are the stuff of the imagination, which is the capacity that unifies data into wholes; it does so by means of patterns rather than abstract concepts.

Descartes proposed, from the very beginning of his first (unfinished) treatise Rules for the Direction of the Mind in 1628 refounding «deduction», and mathematics, by «intuited» (later «innate», Meditations, 7:64 — 5, 72 — 3) ideas rather than scholasticism's, by now discredited, «abstracted concepts».

Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative — which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches — fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement.

We like to project a particular idea of god as some version of Jupiter, rather than acknowledge that is realistically an abstract concept (a collection of ideas, ideal types, etc).

(2) «Confessional postmodernism, with its emphasis on images and narrative, which are more evocative and efficacious than concepts, touching deeper recesses of our psyches, fleshes out what tends to be rather abstract in the process - relational vision which, on the other hand, provides the former with a cosmological complement» (90).

The manager's tactic of keeping faith in «cohesion» and other abstract concepts rather than bolster a flagging midfield and a woefully impotent striker department has failed.

Science in a Waldorf school emphasizes the observation of natural phenomena rather than the formulation of abstract concepts and laws.

They were very good at identifying their feelings and communicating them with us early on, I believe because they associated the signs with (otherwise rather abstract concept of) emotions.

Making soft skills more relevant and applicable, rather than abstract concepts, is one of the biggest challenges eLearning professionals face.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

Inspired by Lon Fuller, who, in Rod Macdonald's words, «saw law as a human project, a human accomplishment, and a human aspiration that emerges from ongoing patterns of human interaction and the reciprocal adjustment of human expectation,» he conceived legal education as being, at its core, learning how «to attend to the complexities of human beings in interaction with each other,» stating that we should teach how law could be «a facilitator of human interaction» and «about finding social outcomes that help solve human problems [rather than] perfecting abstract concepts to solve legal puzzles.»

The duty to to advance the cause of justice should not be read as a duty to advance one particular cause or another, but rather in promoting justice as an abstract concept — indeed, that is inherent in the coupling of «the cause of justice and the rule of law».