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Перевод: abstractness

[существительное]
абстрактность ; отвлеченность

Тезаурус:

1. Granted the abstractness of the representations involved here, it is small wonder that some grammarians doubt the existence of an infinitive in English (cf.
2. Greenfield found that the particular form used corresponded to the degree of what she calls "abstractness".
3. On the least culture-bound scale for determining cognitive operations, that of "degree of abstractness", the anthropologist and the linguist would tend, then, to argue that all societies and social groups share common capacities.
4. This may be caused to some extent by the general abstractness of the language; but it is also a matter of the kinds of syntactic presentation and complexity that James favours: (i) Just as he seems to avoid calling a spade a spade, so James seems to avoid putting first things first.
5. When she applies this to her test situations, however, she tends to interpret it in the narrow sense of explicitness rather than with reference to the higher orders of logic to which abstractness usually refers and which the general weight of her argument implies.
6. Greenfield attempts to avoid this by claiming to test for "abstractness".
7. In terms of social class, sociologists since the 1970s have successfully revealed the power and class interests behind the acceptance of school art or school music as meaning the classics rather than pop or photography, and have shown that the unquestioned valuation of abstractness, "pure" knowledge and literacy in school (in preference to immediacy, "applied" knowledge and practicality) acts to promote the interests and skills of the dominant elite.
8. The reference to literacy in this context is what induced Hildyard and Olson to quote Greenfield in their own work in order to support their conjectures about the consequence of literacy for such aspects of thought as "abstractness", "logic" and "embeddedness".