Sentences with phrase «symbolic functions of»

The pictures tease out symbolic functions of objects (cross-shaped handles, reflections, traffic arrows), thriving on details and textures, parts, rather than wholes.

One of the symbolic functions of the creation accounts themselves is to give positive value to time and to provide the staging for history.

In the less easily understood symbolic function of etiquette, its rules are rarely deducible from first principles.

The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).

For the duration of their stay at RUPERT, Kate Brown and Maurin Dietrich will work to further develop their shared curatorial aims: a critical investigation of the symbolic function of narrative in contemporary art practices, particularly female narratives and theories of interiority, and the feminine voice in storytelling.

In play therapy the symbolic function of play is what is so important, providing children with a means of expressing their inner world.

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The imaginative — albeit symbolic futuristic illustration — smart car model is designed to exist as an extension of a home's living space, blurring the lines between utility, form and function.

At this point proxy access is mostly symbolic — I've never heard of anyone actually being elected to a board via proxy access — and the idea that boards would function better with one or two disgruntled protest directors seems untested and a bit odd.

Gold has served monetary and symbolic functions since before the beginning of recorded history.

Persons who believe that etiquette is just following common sense in applying the mannerly injunction to be considerate of others fail to recognize that etiquette serves not only a regulative function, but also a symbolic and a ritual function.

Closely connected with this point is another: my sensitivity developed as to the functions of religious language that are not open to definitive proof or falsification, but nevertheless indicate in symbolic form the presence of the ultimate.

However one may come down on that, I would agree with Paul Althaus that there is a third function of the orders in relation to the kingdom of God, and that is the symbolic function.

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

In the first version of symbolic functioning a kind of «error» seems to arise when expectations are disappointed, for example, when the sound of thunder fails to follow the flash of lightning.

Whitehead's second version of symbolic functioning is very different from the first.

This implies the recognition that subject - object knowledge fulfills its true function only in so far as it retains its symbolic quality of pointing back to the dialogical knowing from which it derives.

One must understand the full significance of this presentness if one is to understand the symbolic function and the dependent and mediate reality of the I - It relation (Karl Heim has made Buber's distinction between the presentness of the l - Thou relation and the pastness of I - It the basis for his whole philosophy of dimensions and hence in turn of his theology.

The primary function of most teachers should be to stimulate and channel the students» dedication to make use of the abundant resources available through modern techniques of symbolic reproduction and distribution.

This makes no sense from the viewpoint of symbolic language, but fits with the social function of presymbolic language which is social cohesion, (84).

This recovery of the symbolic function requires that the thinking subject be «humiliated»: that he abdicate his superior vantage point, given in the very semantics of the subject - object dichotomy.

Students are taught the symbolic patterns of past centuries, and they should be taught how these symbols and ideas functioned within the practices of the time.

Within the various theologies of liberation movements, the symbolic construction of justice seeks to express the dialectical movement within the function of Christian symbols: justice enables us to name faith, and faith symbols reconceived as justice allow us to envision new spaces of life together.

To compare different cultures, past and present, in terms of how Christ, for instance, is imaged, functions, conceptualized and so on is to enter a kind of bicultural symbolic analysis.

A remarkable feature of the Study of the Missionary Structure of the Congregation was its inattention to the internal aspects of existing churches: their mechanisms and organic and symbolic functions.

Functioning on the basis of the principle that «the how of our present experience must conform to the what of the past in us» (S 58), symbolic reference operates in the intersection of the two modes of perception, an intersection at which «a pair of such percepts must have elements of structure in common, whereby they are marked out for the action of symbolic reference» (S 49).

Are «ligaments» symbolic of the function of a pastor or someone who has a keen ability to hold things together?

It is the function of religion (as well as other forms of symbolic reference) to restore this concreteness to us.

These symbolic forms will function more in the manner of drawing us into the deeper dimension than as objects which we can control intellectually.

The role of symbols and symbolic modes of thinking is intrinsic to Christian discourse as well, but it takes on a different function.

And in Durkheim, a lifetime of work in which the changing bases of moral community lie at the center culminates in a full - scale discussion of religious myth and ritual, a discussion rich with insights about the ways in which symbolic categories are constructed and how they function.

Plus, these lonely towers serve any number of symbolic functions.

Meiko Kaji plays the evangelical Scorpion, who functions more like a symbolic angel of death in the face of men who are evil to women.

Once aspiring to be temples of learning, they lack symbolic connection to their function — unless we suppose, with Diane Ravitch, that No Child Left Behind turned schools into testing factories.

As students progress through the six levels of Modular Math: Functions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various fFunctions they will have opportunities to develop the definition for a function as well as to work with and understand the notation and symbolic representations for various functionsfunctions.

In this article the reader will be able to download four spreadsheet tools that interactively relate symbolic and graphical representations of four different functions and learn how to create tools for other functions.

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 8 with 27 lessons TOPICS The Number System Approximating square roots Irrational square roots Expressions and Equations Squares and square roots Cube roots Slope as a rate of change Problem solving with rates of change One, No, or infinitely many solutions Solving multi-step equations Solving equations with variables on both sides Solving systems of equations Functions Graphing linear equations Linear functions Lines in slope - intercept form Symbolic algebra Constructing functions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scaFunctions Graphing linear equations Linear functions Lines in slope - intercept form Symbolic algebra Constructing functions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scafunctions Lines in slope - intercept form Symbolic algebra Constructing functions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scafunctions Geometry Congruent figures and transformations Reflections, translations, rotations, and dilations Triangle sum theorem Parallel lines transected by a transversal Pythagorean theorem Statistics and Probability Scatter plot diagrams Line of best fit Making a conjecture using a scatter plot

Playing with the physical and symbolic aspects of books as well as home utensils, Lululux is a book crafted by designer Gustavo Piqueira that mixes up formats and reassigns functions.

By deliberately distorting the objects Gober re-creates, he allows them to function as symbolic metaphors, breaking free from the reality of our perceived world and moving into a liminal space — one that exists somewhere between reality and dreams.

CATOPTROPHILIA (2013) is a 3D animation structured around the encounter between two objects, belonging to distant time periods, but connected through their complex set of symbolic functions: an Egyptian hand mirror from the New Kingdom (XV.

In Griffa's observations, metaphorical and symbolic imagery exist as an overlay functioning on top of the canvas, superimposed rather than prevailing as integral to the material itself.

Overall, the exhibition presents a quite diverse repertoire of architectural approaches and formal solutions to the different problems and opportunities which characterize each site; yet all proposals share some common traits, such as the involvement of local communities, the introduction of sustainable energy production facilities as both functional and symbolic elements, and the coexistence of different functions within a single functional scheme, from culture to residence, from education to entertainment.

Scharf plumbs the psychological wells of collective myths for symbolic content: the crown of thorns, the ladder, the fish, and the cross can be found throughout, functioning not, as one might expect, as religious symbols, but rather as a means through which to access a deeper, symbolic level of visual communication.

Based on a set of concepts falling under the ocular physiology (Fovea, macula, lens, etc.), the exhibition also proposes the various functions of the camera eye in its ability to perceive the world on a symbolic and poetic way.

In these works Richter further explored ways in which to undermine the representational responsibility of colour, seeking new means to separate it from traditional descriptive or symbolic functions.

The artist develops a hybrid work, of pictorial and sculptural character, where the image blends with the materiality of the object in a apparent contrast that functions as a symbolic complement.

The preoperational stage (ages 2 - 7 years) is marked by the ability to master symbolic functions, including the association of objects with words, and the transition from an egocentric focus to an awareness that events have causes outside themselves.

Panelists Raúl A. Ramos, Nicole Guidotti - Hernández and C.J. Alvarez — knowledgeable historians of the Mexican - American border — will invite psychoanalytic inquiry by examining how these borders function at both concrete and symbolic levels.