Sentences with phrase «such symbolic thinking»

Most scientists thought that the capability for such symbolic thinking was unique to modern humans, but a new study suggests that it dates back to before the Neandertals.

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With some creative thinking, such symbolic rituals of death and resurrection could be performed in nearly all cultures for any burial ceremony.
Notice that such mistakes are not intellectual in character, since this type of symbolic reference does not involve the operation of thought.
There may well be a significant parallel to such a cosmic vision in the symbolic language of Tantric Buddhism, but it is difficult to think of a comparable antecedent in the West.
The increased awareness and control made possible by symbolic thought enriches human experience to such an extent that it can be said to represent a difference not merely in degree, but rather in kind, from the experience of other animals (BSI 212 - 13).
In this vague field, more precisely, in these fields of experience, a highly organized, but as such scarcely reflected, not to mention questioned, thought mediates for common sense the image of an «exact world» which is certainly a symbolic world.
The manner in which religious consciousness expresses its intimation of such an ultimate context of meaning is primarily through symbolic and mythic modes of thought and language which differ from culture to culture.
Your minds are the problem; as you hitch yourselves to a game of some skill but often luck, with a million polemics each moment, where no outcome can ever be predicted in the hope of attaining an orgasm of superiority, but its symbolic victory, and do you really think there is such thing as victory?
It's the first step towards more complex play and symbolic thought, which you'll notice in activities such as:
So anything that provides opportunities to practice different thinking skills, such as imitation, cause and effect, problem solving, and symbolic thinking will promote cognitive development.
Such thinking probably contains some truth, but, nevertheless, the symbolic impact of convictions would be huge.
Abstract and perhaps symbolic forms of thinking associated with such creations preceded the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago, say archaeologist Josephine Joordens of Leiden University in the Netherlands and her
«If we think about how people today use color, such as in clothing, flags, body decoration, among other things, it seems that color would have been procured and used for symbolic purposes,» Potts said.
I think it's so neat that while they're gorgeous, they're also symbolic of such positive things.
We will need to immerse students in language that, in 9th grader Kinsey's words, «I connect to, or that I think hold brilliance, such as metaphors, symbolic meanings or things that make me wish that I had come up with them.»
His sculptures and installations, constructed out of industrial materials such as Plexiglas, concrete, and steel and arranged in precise geometric shapes, were intended to emphasize the purity of the objects themselves rather than any symbolic meaning they might have — «the simple expression of complex thought,» said Judd.
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