Abstract in sentence

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Abstract ideas are pale things compared to those first bees and blossoms.

But what I'm interested in is the development of the modern mind, of the evolution of creativity, of imagination, of abstract thought, about what it means to be human.

Over the last century, more than 350 Ice Age rock art sites have been found across the continent, decorated with animals, abstract shapes and even the occasional human like these engraved figures from Grotta dell'Addaura in Sicily.

But for me, it was the abstract shapes, what we call geometric signs, that drew me to study the art.

So knowing all this, it seems highly unlikely that the geometric signs from Ice Age Europe were truly abstract written characters.

How would we get someone to care about the world's coral reefs when it's an abstract thing they can barely understand?

They are crucial to abstract reasoning, planning, weighing decisions and flexibly adapting to circumstances.

Pretty much any type of object can have symmetry, from tangible things like butterflies, to abstract entities like geometric shapes.

Okay, that sounds a bit abstract, so let's unpack it.

Maybe all of reality, even its abstract concepts, like time, shape, color and number are false, all just deceptions concocted by an evil genius!

Mathematics is thus an invented logic exercise, with no existence outside mankind's conscious thought, a language of abstract relationships based on patterns discerned by brains, built to use those patterns to invent useful but artificial order from chaos.

These murky waters of abstract logic are tricky to navigate, and so it's probably fitting that to demonstrate the complexity, the Greek historian Plutarch used the story of a ship.

Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic.

When doing research, we often ask ourselves fundamental abstract questions that try to get at the heart of a matter.

Traditional file systems are complex and abstract, and they take your brain extra steps to decode them.

This is on us, all of us, together, because government is not an abstract institution or a concept.

So we couldn't just use some faked abstract image on the lenses.

We just want her on the board with us', or, 'He can pay me back at the end of the game, when he's flush with cash', and I'm thinking again, 'What am I teaching these kids?' So, I started watching how they were playing - listening to their banter, getting a feel for how they were making decisions - and I had this thought: 'What if they're playing this way because the money isn't real?' It's a concept I've been reading a lot about, lately, 'Financial abstraction', the notion that when money becomes more and more of an idea, less tangible and therefore more abstract, it changes the way we interact with it on a regular basis, and there's anecdotal evidence of abstraction everywhere around us.

But what snapped me back to reality was hearing my son behind me say, 'I sure wish I had a phone so I could buy stuff.' (Laughter) You see, money, to a young person, is somewhat abstract, anyway, and when we further the abstraction by waving a MagicBand or putting our phone over a sensor and giving the thumbprint, all it does is further the abstraction.

But there is an art form that's been around for a very long time that's really about using information, abstract information, to make emotionally resonant pieces.

After all, it seems to be dull and abstract, just numbers and computations and rules to apply.

Mathematics may be abstract, but it's not dull and it's not about computing.

And it has, but you also notice, right over there, that it has a very abstract image that it has still managed to recognize and cluster as horses.

So upward mobility is an abstract term, but it strikes at something that's very core at the heart of the American Dream.

I certainly can't, because the people I made commitments to all those years weren't abstract populations.

This way, I could ask abstract, philosophical questions in a way that did not make them run off.

And people have been playing around with extra dimensions of space for a very long time, but it's always been an abstract mathematical concept.

So, Von Neumann was already off in a theoretical cloud, doing abstract sorts of studies of how you could build reliable machines out of unreliable components.

I came across this quiet, seemingly abstract painting, and I had to step up to it twice, even three times, to understand why it resonated so deeply.

That sounds abstract, but for us it's quite practical.

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