O'Connor (2000b) questions the coherence of Shoemaker's picture on abstract metaphysical grounds.
Searching in the aforementioned bibliographical databases was conducted in the title and abstract on grounds of all potential combinations of three groups of terms presented in Figure 1.
For the most part it sounds abstract but grounded, with each musician creating a foundation in the moment.
In counterpoint, the second part of the diptych is an abstract broken ground on which hovers a dish of French-looking fishes and a draped linen bath towel from a famous still life by the 19th-century American Raphaelle Peale.
Organized personality, an element of orderliness, which was statistically significant in uveitis patients, describes a person as "more controlled than random, more logical than abstract, more grounded than in the clouds, overachiever, motivated, mature, hard worker and punctual".
Several neuroimaging studies have investigated the nature of a putative abstract, evolutionarily grounded approximate magnitude representation which may be hosted in the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) (see Dehaene, Molko, Cohen, & Wilson, 2004).
Few people will bother to learn a language on abstract or idealistic grounds, she says.
From the outset, Professor Morgan showed a knack for grounding abstract ideas in specific circumstances and presenting history through the eyes of individuals, whose personalities he captured in a few deft strokes.
"What is exciting about this is that even our abstract thoughts are grounded in these more physical, concrete experiences," he says.
The hypothesis that abstract words are grounded in emotion has been supported by behavioral research and corpus studies of English words.
