Sentences with phrase «symbolic system as»

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As a result, the literal and tangible sacrificial apparatus of the Jews became to the Christians symbolic of another kind of religious system altogether, whose temple is heavenly, not earthly, whose high priest once for all has entered the holy place of divine communion, where believing souls may follow him, (Hebrews 10:19) whose sacrifice is voluntary self - giving, and whose consequence is an open way for all to «draw nigh unto God.»

The anthropologist Claude Lévi Strauss argued that symbolic structures within human societies, including their kinship systems and their mythologies, could be analyzed in the same way, as systems of differences structured according to binary oppositions (e.g., life / death; male / female; hunting / farming; outside / inside).

The third approach is to treat Leviticus as a symbolic or allegorical system that has little or nothing to do with sacrifices per se, but everything to do with teaching important lessons.

No system of ritual uniquely and exclusively qualifies as a vehicle for affirming devotion through symbolic acts.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

As sociologist David Lyon has put it, consumption expresses a «system of symbolic rivalry,» where consumers form their identity «through acquiring commodities that make them distinct from others, and seek approval through lifestyle and symbolic membership.»

Pentecostalism is a «symbolic system,» as are the various Catholicisms, historical Protestantisms, socialisms and populisms.

I focused on their ritual and symbolic enactments of their own value system as a template for the values with which they will approach space travel and space commerce in the 21st century, and have published that research in Late Editions VIII, Para-Sites, edited by George Marcus (2000).

The British Monarchy is a Constitutional Monarchy meaning it is much like Japan's system in which they play a purely symbolic role and we activate just as if we were a complete republic.

Thus, systems integration is seen as promising and perhaps necessary for true AI, especially the integration of symbolic and connectionist models.

In the largest groups, people cooperated nearly twice as often when using the symbolic monetary system, and everyone reaped larger rewards, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The program encompasses a wide range of theoretical perspectives, such as symbolic computation, connectionism, ecological, nonlinear dynamics, and complex systems, and a variety of methodologies including both experimental studies and modeling.

Evidence in support of the first hypothesis would need to cite demonstrations of how symbolic reference, as used by humans, could evolve from functional reference, as observed in other animal communication systems.

Giroux caricatures the traditional classroom as one where «students sit in rows staring at the back of each others» heads and at the teacher who faces them in symbolic, authoritarian fashion»; «events are governed by a rigid time schedule imposed by a system of bells and reinforced by cues from teachers»; we «glorify the teacher as the expert [and] dispenser of knowledge»; «social relationships... are based upon power relations inextricably linked to the teacher's allotment of grades»; and tracking «alienates students from schooling.»

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 scatter plot

If digital literacies are defined as autonomous tools and isolated symbolic systems, reduced to a set of skills and forms for students to reproduce, then school literacy practices will become further distanced from nonschool literacy practices.

Apart from these, other computer science dissertation topics such as software engineering, computer networking and communication, database systems, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, operating systems, and numerical and symbolic computation are also considered to be important to this field of study.Through the versatility of the subject, you can surmise that it requires a lot of hard work and consistent practice to acquire perfection in writing academic documents.

Featuring actors such as Ursula Andress, Richard Serra, and Barney himself, the films operated within a self - enclosed symbolic system.

Yet none of these images focuses on the symbolic generality of a social, economic and political system with such incisiveness and clarity as the Still Life 1976 paintings.

Jensen employs colour as an organizing system within the diagrammatic structure of his paintings, creating optical rhythms that allude to a deeper symbolic meaning.

Each of Ford's animal portraits doubles as a complex, symbolic system, which the artist layers with clues, jokes, and erudite lessons in colonial literature and folktales.

Benoit Paillé describes his Visions series as the, «digitalisation of a certain mental space, building of a manifest reality, a symbolic system around my hyper simplified banal.»

«Rather than reading Cremaster, we are encouraged to consume it as high - end eye candy, whose symbolic system is available to us but hardly necessary to our pleasure: meaning, that is, is no longer a necessary component to art production or reception.

The artist describes his approach as one of «pure experiential seeing»: His works are not intended to be interpreted and understood through acquired symbolic systems; rather they should be experienced on a sensory level.

Engaging with numerous scientific and formal topics such as symbolic systems, visual perception, and the structural significance of patterning, Auerbach's diverse output includes rainbow - hued trompe l'oeil canvases, hand - wrought glass helices, elegantly calligraphed text - based drawings, and (of course) books — from zines to technically advanced sculptural volumes to unique takes on the exhibition catalogue.

With an artistic practice that manifests itself variously as image, text, sculpture, and sound, Dages engages language as both form and content, pressing upon and pulling apart the symbolic nature of this familiar system until it buckles and cracks.

After relocating to the United States in 1986 on a fellowship from Fulbright College at the University of Arkansas, Ji found his voice as an artist who reinvents the system of symbolic structures found in classical Chinese painting to expose the dark side of industrial development on contemporary life.

encoded systems of world philosophies; in addition to Taoist ideas, Jensen worked with the Mayan calendar, Greek temple plans, and other systems of light and time to create carefully worked, deeply symbolic paintings that Peter Schjeldahl described as «gorgeous and cryptic.»

* Formal reasoning: a formal symbolic system, such as logic or mathematics, is employed in the solution of a problem.

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