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It's typically associated with thinking both quickly and abstractly, like teasing out the logic of a puzzle, rather than remembering how to find the cosine of an angle.
It's typically associated with thinking both quickly and abstractly, like teasing out the logic of a puzzle rather than remembering how to find the cosine of an angle.
It's one thing for me to talk about zeros and ones in terms of my phone or abstractly in terms of switches being on and off.
of my phone or abstractly in terms of switches being on and off.
that can actually think abstractly – we can count, we can communicate, we
acquired ability to actually think abstractly and using a language that
These are ideas that we understand more abstractly.
These are ideas that we understand more abstractly.
But let's leave the Bible behind and kind of just talk more abstractly at large.
But let's leave the Bible behind and kind of just talk more abstractly at large things that also bring into question.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
As kids grow up and learn to read and write and think abstractly, memory becomes more abstract too.
As kids grow up and learn to read and write and think abstractly, memory becomes more abstract too.
So if you take it very abstractly as a kind of motivation to wake up, I like that.
So if you take it very abstractly as a kind of motivation to wake up, I like that.
And what we would prefer for the models to do is, you know, abstractly learn the concepts of countries and capital cities, but
Chronological illusions may also be caused by what I call the construal level heuristic, a technique whereby we place things in time based on whether we construe them concretely or abstractly.
Now, unsurprisingly, it's been found that people tend to think about things that are psychologically distant more abstractly.