Quotes About Conceptualization

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We are for ever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

We are forever attempting to convert things into signs for the more intelligible abstractions of our own invention. But in doing so, we rob these things of a great deal of their native thinghood.

En conclusión, la experiencia del yo relativo está ligada a la existencia de una coherencia global del continuo mental que puede ser algoritmizada. Esta coherencia global algorítmica constituye el tema básico de la personalidad. Cuando este tema básico es identificado y observado se provoca un estado de conciencia en el cual desaparece el yo y toda conceptualización.

Mobile thought," here, opens to what concepts implicitly and often quietly foreclose, as well as what they encourage and condone.22 It entails keeping the concepts with which we work provisional, active, and subject to change; it entails retaining them both as mobile and as located as they are in the world.

You know, I'm not terribly fast at my times tables, because that's not what I think mathematics is about.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Psychiatric diagnosis is at best a common language, and current categories should not be treated as "real.

Writing is not my forte, but I am good at visualising.

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

Another characteristic of mathematical thought is that it can have no success where it cannot generalize.

The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.

To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.

When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what makes conceptualization possible.

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.

If it can happen in your mind, it can happen in your camera

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes....Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes.

A common misconception about how things such as space shuttles come to be is that engineers simply apply the theories and equations of science. But this cannot be done until the new thing-to-be is conceived in the engineer's mind's eye. Rather than following from science, engineered things lead it.

I feel passionately about measurement - about how difficult it is, about how much theory and conceptualization is involved in measurement, and indeed, how much politics is involved.

I'm admittedly a record guy. Singles and I are a different beast. I'm definitely an overall picture thinker.

Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.