Sentence examples for concreteness with which from inspiring English sources
Professor Feinberg was widely admired for the simple concreteness with which he described abstract issues.
The point here is that anything can be processed analytically rather than experientially, and it is the mode with which it is processed that is critical, rather than the concreteness or abstraction of the referent itself.
We tested whether a "concreteness fading" technique, which begins with concrete materials and fades to abstract symbols, can help children extend their knowledge beyond a simple instructed procedure.
To prevent possible suppression effects arising from the inclusion of correlated predictor variables, concreteness (which correlated with imageability) and familiarity (which correlated with frequency) were omitted from the regression model.
A similar prediction is made by the reduced concreteness theory, which proposes that worry is predominantly experienced in a more abstract-verbal form rather than in a more concrete-visual imagery form, and that this reduced concreteness leads to negative consequences for problem solving and affect regulation (Borkovec et al., 1998; Stöber, 1998).
A good rule of thumb for accessible design is that it's generally better designers aim for concreteness with iconography and the like, rather than be cutesy and abstract because it's en vogue and "looks cool" (the idea being a visually impaired person can more easily distinguish something that looks like a button as opposed to something that is technically a button but which looks like text).
The NGO structure brings concreteness and a style which is guided by values and beliefs with an action orientation.
(This view carries a commitment to the claim that a concrete object becomes nonconcrete and that a nonconcrete object becomes concrete, which is even more problematic than the claim that concreteness is a contingent property).
The metaphor in Pentland's title, "Social Physics," is meant to express the extraordinary concreteness of his data, which — unlike the data captured by Facebook or Google — is rooted in your physical actions: in what you do, rather than what you say.
