Commenting on Orwell's distinction between words politically inflected and words that plainly name things, Nunberg points out that plain language is as political as any other and will probably be all the more effective because it "seems to correspond to concrete perception".
Reasons for this paradoxical effect could be differences in the way in which the images are being processed– an abstract, rumination-focused style versus a more concrete, perception driven mode of thinking [ 45], as it has been found that (currently and formerly) depressed individuals tend to engage in dysfunctional response mechanisms to positive affect [ 46].
The birds and the flies remain stuck in their concrete ranges of perception and mentality.
A close and critical reading of humanistic texts might however, help the student to become aware that there existed a plurality of approaches to human problems and that the dogmatic affirmation of abstractions and ideologies could only distort one's perceptions of concrete realities.
Very often, cognitive interventions are conceived as being inadequate for children due to their concrete thinking, time-limited perceptions and egocentric nature of thinking.
Proving the type of relationship two people have, and the pattern of sharing confidences, can be difficult because it often depends more on personal perception than concrete evidence.
As the months passed, it had become clear that India was not going to go to war -- a perception made concrete last week when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee stated unequivocally that there would be no war.
Later, Helmholtz used his experience with the concrete science of human perception to pose a problem for the Riemannian approach to geometry.
Also, Rausch et al. (2016) measured confidence in one's competence as a very situationally specific state variable closely related to the perception of concrete situations within authentic office simulations.
However, recently, in these applications, where it is directly exposed and interacts with the landscape, visual perception of concrete is changing and it is now increasingly being considered as a material brutal and uncouth in its technological sincerity.
