Pixar's vision of conceptual activity, in short, is a trip, and it sticks out like Dali's dream sequences for Hitchcock's "Spellbound".
While the weight put on "propositions" (or better, human conceptual activity) removes the possibility of a metaphysical theory of reality, it does not remove reality.
These associations are creative, perceptually grounded, systematic, cross-culturally uniform, and emerge on pre-linguistic patterns of conceptual activity which correlate with core elements of human embodied experience (see the entries on metaphor and embodied cognition).
In many cases, the 'art-making' and the 'artwork' come together, because what is sought is an identification of the notion of the work of art with the conceptual activity of the artist.
Second, it considered word meaning a psychological phenomenon: it assumed that the semantic properties of words should be defined in mentalistic terms (i.e., words signify "concepts" or "ideas" in a broad sense), and that the dynamics of sense modulation, extension, and contraction that underlie lexical change correspond to patterns of conceptual activity in the human mind.
Bringing together examples of Mr. Ryman's stripped-down paintings and evidence from Mr. Wilson's various Conceptual Art activities, this exhibition tellingly contrasts different kinds of aesthetic purism (Smith).
Finally, it covers the transition from the conceptual design activities toward detailed design.
The chapter reviews various conceptual design activities in composite product development performed from different authors.
