Sentences with phrase «of an abstract concept like»

But like any other important human activity, faith has to achieve a measure of conceptual clarity if it is to understand and express itself, and part of that process is the development of abstract concepts like Trinity, incarnation and substance.

A traits matrix helps students understand vocabulary and sharpens their understanding of abstract concepts like fairness or power (see samples).

It's very hard to measure the worth of an abstract concept like money, particularly over long periods of time.

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This speaking of Christ does, like Panikkar's notion of the Trinity, maintain only loose links to the Christian understanding of Jesus as the Christ and God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and is, thus, turned into what I call a figure, a concept abstracted from Christianity, thus available to other religions.

There are a lot of debates in the humanities about the relative influence of agency (the will and power of individuals), institutions, and structure (a more abstract concepts including things like social norms and expectations which are not formalized).

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).

The surprising faith of E.F. Schumacher, who as a practical man is led to the abstract side of economics — its metaphisical and religious underpinnings — through more «practical» concepts like Intermediate Technology and Buddhist Economics.

It is, I suspect, part of this practicality that leads him to approach the abstract side of economics — its metaphysical and religious underpinnings — through more «practical» (that is, saleable) concepts like Intermediate Technology and Buddhist Economics.

As New Math curricula spread across the country, elementary students became fluent in the abstract vocabulary of concepts like set theory, which uses representative collections of objects to explain how numerical families overlapped or combined.

In her article on the mental lives of animals, Emma Young wrote, «Chimps... just don't get abstract physical concepts, like...

While mainstream physics turns to abstract concepts like particles and fields to describe the behaviour of the matter and energy that make up the universe, Fredkin says they are formed from a pattern of bits.

Her focus is on the journey of self awareness and turning very abstract concepts such as meditation, miracles, destiny, insight, positive thinking, ego mind etc into concrete images like cartoons.

It's full of fun facts like that, but it saves its most fascinating revelations for the intricacies of canine interactions, including their complex gift - giving behaviours, advanced speech, abstract philosophical concepts, and eerie ability to go for at least fifteen days at a time without food or water.

A. Chemistry has a reputation as a «hard» subject, and it is a difficult science for many students — and adults, even adults with college degrees — to understand, because it's based on abstract concepts, about what it's impossible to see, like the structure of matter and interactions on a molecular scale.

Reform math turns real mathematics on its head by focusing on «abstract thinking» instead of traditional concepts like addition and subtraction.

The torn surfaces of works like «I'm Sorry I Made You Cry» and the large - scale «Hardcore Rose» suggest the end result of an epic struggle with the very concept of abstract painting itself.

If I try to get rid of that boaty bit, then to a certain extent I have already been hijacked by figurative thinking (in particular, my concept of what an abstract painting should look like) and the abstractness of my work has already been compromised.

It's something of an abstract concept, but with real world implications, and the universality of such physical models, based on things like radiative balance, atmospheric composition and density, distance from the local Sun, etc., is a very strong argument in favor of general acceptance of the results of climate models and observations on Earth.

Like the best of clinical texts, this one brings abstract theoretical concepts to the experiential and practice levels.