Important as Kierkegaard is in the recent history of Western thought, especially in theological thought, it is a mistake, I think, to single him out exclusively as if he alone stemmed the
tide of abstract thought and opened the way for the «existential» stance.
It is interesting to note that in the course of discussing the role of speculative reason later in this work, Whitehead remarks that «Asia had no large
schemes of abstract thought, energizing the minds of men and waiting to give significance to their chance experiences.
«That wave is receding now and leaving on the beach the
debris of abstract thinking, compartmentalized knowledge, warring specialisms, fragmented facts, and a general sense of alienation between human consciousness and wider reality» (Peters 1985 p. 193).
Like two other recent biopics, The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game, the film attempts to give us a glimpse of an unknowable mind traversing the
realm of abstract thought, while also humanising its subject.
I was always fascinated by physics, especially modern physics as it moved away from the mechanistic world of classical physics into the quantum world, and I found mathematics, especially pure mathematics, a very demanding and challenging subject that requires considerable
powers of abstract thought and reasoning.
However, this year archaeologist Christopher Henshilwood of the African Heritage Research Institute in Cape Town uncovered what he considers much earlier
evidence of abstract thought — two pieces of ocher engraved by a South African cave dweller 77,000 years ago.
While Henshilwood rejects that suggestion, he ran the idea past some colleagues who thought it an even better
indication of abstract thought — as only modern people would sit and doodle.
While The Neon Demon hammers home the visual splendor to perfection, the plot does venture into a
bit of abstract thinking, forcing the viewer to start toying with metaphors and deeper themes.
Training our students, our future, in the fine art of passing FCAT (arguably one of the highest stakes testing systems in this nation) while neglecting the finer
points of abstract thinking and problem solving.
Developmentally speaking, the youngest subjects might not have the
sort of abstract thinking and motivation to push a game beyond the campaign.
This major exhibition looks at the ways in which artists have explored the intersection of rock and culture in tools, structures, myths, language, and
systems of abstract thought as man has strived to understand and manage our world.
Just as Whitney breaks down the grid central to his paintings, his drawings break the
rules of abstract thinking and move beyond color studies and formal exercises to an integrated exploration of image and text, form and content, color and line.
The idea that there may be multiple truths is beyond the grasp of most children, since it requires a
level of abstract thinking of which children are not yet capable (except, perhaps, for older teenagers).
The earliest recorded numbers coincide with the first appearance of many other
expressions of abstract thought, from bone flutes to carvings of zaftig female figures.
To chadg76 who said, «I can't believe that any rational human capable
of abstract thought and objectivity believes any of this man made garbage.»
It lies in the very nature of intelligent beings that they function as amphibians able to operate conjointly and concurrently both in the realm of concrete experience and in
that of abstract thought.
Some regions were smaller than ours, but others were unusually large for such a small hominid, hinting that Homo floresiensis might have been capable
of abstract thought and could make complicated plans.