In a recent paper in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, the psychologists Paul Conway of the University of Western Ontario and Johanna Peetz of Carleton University showed that when we think of a past deed with an abstract mind-set — say, by focusing on one that occurred in the distant past — we demonstrate moral consistency.
Like Frege after him, Bolzano conceived of propositions as complexes composed of wholly abstract mind-independent constituents (Vorstellungen an sich).
In this context, realism is the view that the meanings of general terms are abstract, mind-independent entities called universals, and that concrete things belong to kinds by virtue of instantiating universals.
These audiovisual pieces transform a space into a simulated, abstract, mind-bending environment.
After periods of self-reflection, which we all go through, I was drawn to the power of art and how art acts as a social snapshot told through abstract minds.
We are not divorced, abstracted minds playing with mere matter which is to be manipulated for our commodity".
There were Spurs-branded stencils on every surface and even down on the concourse a "Welcome to Tottenham Hotspur" arch, raising the notion of Tottenham Hotspur as a moveable feast, an abstract idea, a state of mind.
Cecil Taylor's first album for Blue Note was entitled Unit Structures, and presented itself as an experiment in Einsteinian physics, with "time measurement as isolated matter abstracted from mind": no matter how syncopated your steps are, it's hard to dance or even tap your feet to a demonstration of the relativity theory.
His productions are notable for their abstract and mind-bending sample manipulation.
Short stop-motion animations brought to mind abstract video installations.
