abstract thought

collocation in English

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abstract
adjective
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/ˈæb.strækt/us
/ˈæb.strækt/
existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a ...
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thought
noun[C or U]
uk
/θɔːt/us
/θɑːt/
the act of thinking about or considering something, an idea or opinion, or a set of ideas about a ...
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(Definition ofabstractandthoughtfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This practising man's antipathy towardsabstractthoughtis important.
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The process demands a quality ofabstractthought: a geometry and a relationship of numbers worked out in advance and irrespective of site.
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This is the capacity forabstractthoughtand for language.
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Several informants recounted that they used music to assist in pain management, to avoid loneliness, or just to be lost inabstractthought.
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These sensations provided the foundation upon which human beings could exercise their distinctive capacity forabstractthoughtand reasoning.
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Interestingly, it is here, in imagery and narrative rather thanabstractthought, that one of the most striking points is made.
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Why should we believe that we can construct falsifiable, predictive models byabstractthoughtalone?
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Learning grammar is a valuable training inabstractthought: those who have no respect for grammar are, in the last analysis, hostile to impersonal reasoning and clear thought.
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Taine's perspective celebrated two ideals, both in some sense untainted byabstractthought.
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Accordingly, domain general models of human cognitive evolution tend to focus on distinctly human capabilities, such as language, self-reflection,abstractthought, manipulation of symbols, and so on.
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Abstractthoughtmay also be affected.
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As a logical proposition the science of economics is largely a matter ofabstractthought, and as such is liable to variable deductions.
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I take it that conceptualisation means what we would call roughlyabstractthought.
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He achieves the power ofabstractthoughtonly by stages, which may not be complete until middle age.
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The book has been described as a grab-bag of short essays, allegories, commentary pieces and bits ofabstractthoughton religion and politics.
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All language, they argued, is permeated with metaphor, whose use in fact "constitutes" distinctively human that is, distinctivelyabstractthought.
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Given thatabstractthoughtis thus limited, he went on to consider how historical formations give rise to different philosophies and ways of thinking.
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Modern human behaviors characteristic of recent humans includes a language, the capacity forabstractthoughtand the use of symbolism to express cultural creativity.
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Related to metacognition andabstractthought, perspective-taking involves a more sophisticated theory of mind.
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Abstractthought, though, is a new trick, perhaps less than 100 thousand years old.
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