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Definition of Abstract thought
1. Noun. Thinking that is coherent and logical.
Generic synonyms: Cerebration, Intellection, Mentation, Thinking, Thought, Thought Process
Specialized synonyms: Analysis, Analytic Thinking, Argument, Argumentation, Line, Line Of Reasoning, Logical Argument, Conjecture, Deduction, Deductive Reasoning, Synthesis, Illation, Inference, Anticipation, Prediction, Prevision, Ratiocination, Reasoning Backward, Regress, Synthesis, Synthetic Thinking
Derivative terms: Reason
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstract Thought
Literary usage of Abstract thought
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"CHILDREN'S CAPACITY FOR abstract thought AS SHOWN BV THEIR USE OP LANGUAGE IN
THE DEFINITION OF ABSTRACT TERMS By Louis« ELLISON But this is not all; ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1870)
"has he not also catalogued all possible abstract Thought ? Do not the abstract
forms of Mediate Being, as described in the Second Part of his Treatises, ..."
3. A History of English Poetry by William John Courthope (1903)
"... his power of abstract thought found sufficient scope in the sober doctrine
and ritual of that Communion, as it was being developed under the influence ..."
4. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1879)
"That brutes possess self-consciousness, introspection, imagination, abstract
thought, cannot, I think, be proved. The fact that animals possess faculties ..."
5. Psychology and the School by Edward Herbert Cameron (1921)
"CHAPTER XIX ARITHMETIC Numbers illustrate abstract thought. — The psychology of
arithmetic affords a splendid illustration of the nature and use of abstract ..."
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