Sentence examples for abstract understanding from inspiring English sources

A speedy convertible excites us neither because of any love for metal and chrome, nor because of an abstract understanding of its engineering.

Furthermore, since there is neither self-evident knowledge of God nor any natural experience of him, humans can have only an abstract understanding of what he is.

A standard philosophical move is to generalize and abstract, understanding a situation from a higher level.

At this point, music no longer moves us to feel anything, but simply engages our abstract understanding.

It argues that the biased balance can be an interesting source of inspiration for our abstract understanding of how a measuring device influences the measurement process.

The positivity of Christianity derived from the abstract understanding, rather than from speculative reason, which led religious experience back to its subjective roots.

For Marden, the point was emotion, and he remained loyal to the Abstract Expressionists' understanding of art as a projection of the self.

Supposedly, by maintaining an abstract conceptual understanding of cause and effect within the task at hand, Vicarious' Schema Networks can run effectively in different environments without retraining.

An abstract, intellectual understanding of deep time comes easily enough—I know how many zeroes to place after the 10 when I mean billions.

We can now see how Kant thinks that our aesthetic experiences and judgments can bridge the gulf between our abstract, intellectual understanding of the requirements and conditions of morality and a palpable, sensuous representation of those requirements and conditions.

Intelligence, if that hive mind called Wikipedia is to believed, is "defined in many different ways such as in terms of one's capacity for logic, abstract thought, understanding, self-awareness, communication, learning, emotional knowledge, memory, planning, creativity and problem solving".