Abstract-ideas Sentence Examples

They express abstract ideas imperfectly.

Beyond the Lord and his Fire, the Gathas only recognize the archangels and certain ministers of Ormazd, who are, without exception, personifications of abstract ideas.

The great abstract ideas (considered directly and not merely in tacit use) which have dominated the science were due to them - namely, ratio, irrationality, continuity, the point, the straight line, the plane.

This, again, is a process of abstraction, the attainment of abstract ideas which, apart from the concrete individuals, are conceived as having a substantive existence.

Before we deduce results from such abstract ideas as cause, substance, matter, we must ask what in reality do these mean - what is the actual content of consciousness which corresponds to these words?

Thus general or abstract ideas are merely copies of a particular impression conceived in a particular manner.

The interests of Prussia, he urged, had been too often sacrificed to abstract ideas.

He lays special stress on the point that abstract ideas when held in their abstraction are almost interchangeable with their opposites - that extremes meet, and that in every true and concrete idea there is a coincidence of opposites.

Nor does the use of abstract ideas and terms make any difference.

But the chief interest for the history of logic belongs to his doctrine in so far as it bears upon the nature and function of abstract ideas.

Philosophers have tried to find out what was her conception of abstract ideas before she learned language.

He asked me how I had taught Helen adjectives and the names of abstract ideas like goodness and happiness.

In the very nature of things, articulation is an unsatisfactory means of education; while the use of the manual alphabet quickens and invigorates mental activity, since through it the deaf child is brought into close contact with the English language, and the highest and most abstract ideas may be conveyed to the mind readily and accurately.

Second, during the passage into adolescence, individuals become better able to think about abstract ideas.

Virgos have a great eye for detail, and generally feel uncomfortable with abstract ideas and theories because such thinking is not exact and precise.

This age group is more mature and can handle abstract ideas and those requiring audience input.