Sentence examples for symbolic thought from inspiring English sources

These humans, DeSalle and Tattersall claim (and I agree), were symbolic: "They bequeathed us items that were overtly symbolic: clear proclamations of symbolism and symbolic thought processes" (p. 194).

Whereas in normal children, symbolism became abstract and appeared only in dreams, fantasies and fairy tales, the symbolic thought of schizophrenic children remained concrete and structured their entire thought disorder.

"It is new and even stronger evidence of the Neanderthal capacity for developing complex symbolic thought".

Thomas wrote on the logic of abstract, symbolic thought, and Peter wrote on the logic of dialectics, disputation among experts.

This would suggest that the thought is already a symbolic thought, a graphic image, which does not exist outside of language ("il n'y a pas de hors-texte").

In any event, the cave painters left the first clear expressions of symbolic thought and a strong argument for speech as a recent development.

The necessary connection between human dominion over animals with spiritual and symbolic human thought has already been highlighted as lying at the origins of animal domestication.

First of all, our Parallel Distributed Processing approach does not deny a symbolic level of thought.

Anderson and Lebiere attribute the shortcomings of our parallel-distributed processing framework to a failure to acknowledge a symbolic level of thought.

While we acknowledge that connectionist models still have many limitations, we nevertheless feel that this does not arise from any failure to acknowledge a symbolic level of thought.

But in the end, despite their potency — never more compelling than in his hands — these symbolic representations of thought and feeling couldn't save David: not from his mental disease or from his ambition to be more than just another remarkable writer.