Why is it that the death toll now is beyond 200, approaching 300, and they're still counting?" While the preachers wrestled with the big questions, governmental officials focused on more concrete matters.
The Pirahã, Dr. Everett wrote, showed these linguistic gaps not because they were simple-minded, but because their culture — which emphasized concrete matters in the here and now and also lacked creation myths and traditions of art making — did not require it.
Intuition is "rapid, instinctive judgment, whether in the objective sensible perception of relatively concrete matters, or in the most abstract" (PD 372).
The conflict is no longer solely about specific, concrete matters -- like wages or health care coverage.
It would be great if Republicans can hash out their differences over a concrete policy matter, especially immigration, which touches conservatism's competing values.
On the advice of the attending doctors, I tried to be more concrete and matter of fact with psychotic patients, more empathetic with depressed patients and more authoritarian while working in a volatile emergency room.
But the impact alone of a marathon run on concrete, no matter at what speed, has a deleterious effect unimaginable in a pickup basketball game or a company softball game.
The calling of birds and the rustle of trees provide most of the commentary, and the effect is somehow to make history more mysteriously distant and more concrete — a matter of stone and weathered plaques inscribed with the records of half-forgotten deeds.
The so-called "theory of direct reference" has contributed to rehabilitate the view that concrete individuals matter more to the identity of the singular thoughts that humans entertain than the Frege/Russell doctrines allow.
The technique can be applied to any concrete, no matter how fresh or hardened, pavement engineer Robert Otto Rasmussen of the Transtec Group in Austin, Texas, told attendees at a meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Baltimore, Maryland, this week.
There are no entirely abstract paintings here (though all paintings are abstractions, however concrete their subject matter).
