Sentences with phrase «of high abstractions»

This conception of the universe is surely framed in terms of high abstractions, and the paradox only arises because we have mistaken our abstractions for concrete realities.1

This conception of the universe is surely framed in terms of high abstractions, and the paradox only arises because we have mistaken our abstraction for concrete realities (80 - 81).

Elements of high abstraction in the antecedent field apply to many events in that duration, but also to events in previous and subsequent durations.

The exhibition will give a rounded view of Neel's career, showing her to be a radical painter in the figurative tradition — which was unjustly eclipsed in a period of high abstraction.

Not exact matches

Elements at the higher levels of abstraction have wide application and can thus be grouped under general labels.

In review, the hierarchical scheme is constructed on a modified reductionist principle, in that each level of abstraction is to be explained in terms of the elements at the next highest level.

King of the Jews, Son of David are used of Jesus, we can keep them at a high enough level of abstraction that they need not disrupt our settled, complacent gentile Christian identities.

For metaphysics is not abstraction, but the perception and analysis of the existential from a higher perspective.

The actual course of the development of new forms of existence is inconceivably complex, and every account, even the most detailed, is a high abstraction.

Beginning with the «point» of maximal abstraction (i.e., the «vertex»), we descend through grades of less complexity whose members are the components of the higher grade objects.

The abstractive hierarchy «includes» (i.e., «has as a subset or is equal to») every progressively higher grade of abstraction.

But this criticism does not really apply to Hartshorne in that in his virtue ethics he is not so much concerned with agents as with the principles that (albeit at a high level of abstraction) guide one in determining which actions are logically possible and which, when chosen by some agent or other, are consistent with what must be the case in metaphysics.

Characterizing world consciousness as «a very high level abstraction which has affected the thought patterns of an individual or of a society» (p. 5), Regan goes on to show how for Whitehead the approximation to world consciousness and the development of religion are parallel.

Justice therefore can not be identified with one type of social order which exemplifies certain principles, even the highest, because principles are abstractions.

Thus, the thing - concept of reality is rejected as superficial because Whitehead thought he was able to show that the thing - concept of reality corresponded to a high grade of abstraction and represented a late derivative concept.

Or, as Whitehead put the same point more simply in Adventures of Ideas, «I contend that the notion of mere knowledge is a high abstraction» (AI 225 - 226).

It would be high abstraction to inquire whether a certain thing is or is not properly regarded as an actual entity, apart from consideration of the interaction of that entity with others.

I have the highest opinion of the abstractions they have made of it.

Both the «principle of relativity» (PR 22) and the «reformed subjectivist principle» (PR 167) indicate that any conception of an actuality apart from its interrelations with other actualities, or apart from its satisfaction of subjective aim, would be high abstraction.

«At Waldorf, we are excited to see students in the high school singing the elements of the periodic table, staging plays in Spanish, drawing in Math, producing short videos for Shakespeare lessons and conveying, through abstraction, the history of language through circus arts and acrobatics.»

It takes a high degree of sophistication about their culture, and it also takes a high degree of abstraction to be able to convey it.»

Thanks to the high degree of abstraction of AnNa, researchers have been able to conduct several studies of both the human skeleton and of the rest of terrestrial vertebrates, especially as regards the development and evolution of the skull.

Then, in a series of experiments, the researchers looked at how the highest and lowest rated power songs affected both people's sense of power and three previously identified psychological and behavioral consequences of power: the tendency to see the forest instead of the trees (thought abstraction), perceived control over social events (illusion of control), and the desire to move first in competitive interactions.

And even though the split narrative doesn't quite cohere, Coppola wins an amazingly high proportion of his risky bets, including a finale that takes off into total abstraction.

There are clear implications for schools of the choice of high - vs. low - abstraction measuring tools for soft skills.

And how do you support students who may not have reached a higher level of abstraction yet?

We tend to wish our students were at the highest level of abstraction.

An example of a high - abstraction soft skill is whether a student reports on a questionnaire that he or she is a reliable worker.

This is illustrated in Figure 1 with an example of high and low abstraction within the category of academic soft skills.

The low level of abstraction and high level of observability of the student behaviors to which the Report Card refers have two important practical advantages.

It's still possible at a fairly high level of abstraction to join moderate liberals and moderate conservatives around some key principles of education reform, much as the state - based reform groups joined under the loose umbrella of Policy Innovators in Education in their statement of «commitments.»

Carnevale warns that the high school curriculum has moved to higher and higher levels of abstraction, away from practical and applied learning.

He has spoken in the past of having reached a «higher level of abstraction» when he conceived of the idea in 1989, 20 years after the advent of the Internet, he noted.

I just finished reading a post by Lindsay Buroker that, among other things, makes me think that the market is changing too fast even for e-books to offer pertinent advice, thus my wish for a fairly high level of abstraction — one that might have a hope of surviving some winds of change.

It's not simply the sequel to High Times Hard Times, nor the revision of genealogies traced in the «Provisional Painting» essays, nor the direct extension of ideas explored in «Abstraction Out of Bounds» — though it shares something in common with each of these.

Asked about the new direction of his work in the 80's Scully remarks: «I got impatient with the precious remoteness of high - end abstraction.

Or else bring to mind the reverse, high - abstraction - to - low - realism trajectory of Philip Guston.»

Those who felt that abstraction was the highest form of painting believed that Humphrey had taken a step back, had become, in that regard, like Philip Guston.

Redstone's practice fuses a high modernist exploration of abstraction with an engagement in historic experiments of Renaissance perspective.

Guston became a hero to at least one corner of Postmodernism by rebelling early and often against the authority and high seriousness of abstraction.

They exist on what Frecon would consider the high plane of abstraction, which is something unto itself.

«Lyrical Abstraction... a Definition» is a proposed exhibition of important, exciting, beautiful and high quality abstract paintings.

Blurring distinctions between «high» and «low» art, between abstraction and figuration, and between text and imagery, these paintings reflect both the excitement and turbulence of the artist's times.

In its survey last year, the Guggenheim presented itself as the high temple of abstraction, not a bad place for a ritual.

His high - definition videos and powerful sound - tracks address existential questions about how love, sex, death, and relationships are experienced in the face of digital abstraction.

A stalwart defender of abstraction like McKenzie can approach routine, but several artists there go big, including Plexiglas triangles high on the wall by Doreen McCarthy and wide brushstrokes by Andrea Belag.

Before Lygia Clark was getting major museum retrospectives; beforeAdriana Varejão was represented by leading galleries; before Beatriz Milhazes was achieving high prices at auction, Patricia Phelps de Cisneroswas collecting Latin American art, filling the walls of her home with Modernist abstraction and contemporary works by artists from Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina and Uruguay.

The new paintings fuse, in Cranston's idiosyncratic way, her ongoing interest in color theory and how it functions within consumer culture vis - a-vis corporate marketing and branding strategies, as well as its relationship to personal and collective experience, with the aesthetics and history of high Modernist abstraction.

Sprawling in size but tightly measured in execution, Lettre sur les sourds et muets I exemplifies, with great fervor, a high point in one of the great careers in American abstraction.

And it sets a precedent for the red square in Piet Mondrian's Composition with Yellow, Blue and Red (1937 - 42), which sits at the heart of this exhibition, upholding high modernism and geometric abstraction at their most sophisticated.