In terms of two mediators, perceived message clarity mediated the effects of concrete (vs. abstract) message on purchase intention only, whereas perceived CSR mediated the effects of concrete (vs. abstract) message on attitude toward the company and purchase intention.
The content of the function is laid out in the abstract definition, but the intention to take it as a specification is manifest in using it as one (§2.2).
As shown in Table 2, the indirect effect of concrete (vs. abstract) message on purchase intention through perceived message clarity was significant, but not on attitude toward the company.
A primary pharmacogenetic study was defined as one in which the title of the study or the stated aims or purpose within the text of the abstract indicated that the primary intention of the study was to investigate the effect of genetic variation on drug response.
(Any mention of the massive unemployment crisis shall be in the abstract -- we have no intention or desire to get heavily invested in the lives of ordinary Americans, least of all those who are poor or have no job).
Recall that, in the case of overt activity, an agent's behaviour is implemented by way of closely coupled modelling mechanisms that take an intention's relatively abstract specification of a goal-state and transform it into various fine-grained, functionally specific, commands and predictions.
The point is, why should the rest of us debate Iraq in terms of intentions, convictions and abstract notions of promoting freedom and democracy?
What separates us from other animals is that we can partially encode our mental states (beliefs, desires and intentions) in an abstract, symbolic form.
Both the gallery and the artist had a clash with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance a few years ago, involving long discussions about the possible copulating intentions of some abstract shapes on a painting.
The muddle works to strand a viewer in the here and now of the painting, which becomes the practically abstract symbol of a powerful, ungraspable intention.
