concrete experience

collocation in English

meaningsofconcreteandexperience

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concrete
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒŋ.kriːt/us
/ˈkɑːn.kriːt/
clear and certain, or real and existing in a form that can be seen ...
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experience
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspɪə.ri.əns/us
/ɪkˈspɪr.i.əns/
(the process of getting) knowledge or skill from doing, seeing, or ...
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(Definition ofconcreteandexperiencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This takes national feeling beyond the merely discursive and attaches it toconcreteexperienceof which landscape is the vector.
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Theconcreteexperiencebelongs to the individual spectator, and this is in fact the aim of the performance.
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I hope that his optimism will be justified, for some of us have hadconcreteexperienceof the effect of inflation.
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Kolb proposes that adult learners learn through reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, active experimentation, andconcreteexperience.
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All of his speculative reflections, including his philosophical ones, squarely rest on the authority ofconcreteexperienceand on pure sense data.
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He rejects the common view of knowledge as paradigmatically propositional, regarding propositional meaning as something which the mind abstracts fromconcreteexperience.
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Like the pattern blocks, the interlocking cubes provide aconcreteexperiencefor students to identify, extend, and create patterns.
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Sensing types often attend to what is occurring in the present, and can move to the abstract after they have established aconcreteexperience.
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Another characteristic of the open cognitive style is a facility for thinking in symbols and abstractions far removed fromconcreteexperience.
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The big themes are always tied to the concrete experiences of adolescence and the lessons learned are intimately linked to the phenomenon of growing up.
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After setting (typically 12 days), a concrete must cure, the process in which concrete experiences a chemical reaction between the cementitious particles and the water.
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Because pattern blocks are sized to fit to each other (for instance, six triangles make up a hexagon), they provide a concrete experiences with halves, thirds, and sixths.
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