What is "symbolic"

Usage examples of "symbolic".

At bottom, an axolotl squirmed from a symbolic puddle half into the air, and fell back.

The title not only confirmed the centrality of the hippocampus to studies of animal learning, but was also symbolic of the conceptual shift amongst psychologists away from the crudities of behaviourism and simple associationism towards an understanding of animals, like humans, as cognitive organisms.

Later in the ceremony, after he had made his vows, he would receive the braided cincture of crimson and gold to hold the scapular in place, symbolic of the binding of those vows.

They painted or carved the walls with descriptive and symbolic scenes, and crowded their interiors with sarcophagi, cinerary urns, vases, goblets, mirrors, and a thousand other articles covered with paintings and sculptures rich in information of their authors.

Thus, cognitive science becomes the study of such cognitive symbolic systems, and the field of artificial intelligence takes this cognitivist hypothesis literally.

It might be suggested that a dyad is that thing--or rather what is observed upon that thing--which has two powers combined, a compound thing related to a unity: or numbers might be what the Pythagoreans seem to hold them in their symbolic system in which Justice, for example, is a Tetrad: but this is rather to add the number, a number of manifold unity like the decad, to the multiplicity of the thing which yet is one thing.

One of the key points of this chapter will be that what is called fetishism is often nothing more than a slur levelled against those who violate the aesthetic or symbolic sensibilities of another person or group.

Such chains were symbolic ornaments, and most Dry-town women went all their lives with fettered hands.

But she is converted and has acquitted herself well in controlling the symbolic retriever.

These images that you view across the carved and silver-gilt work of the iconostas, where they are ranged symmetrically upon the golden screen opening their large fixed eyes and raising their brown hand with the fingers turned in a symbolic fashion, produce, by means of their somewhat savage, superhuman and immutable traditional aspect, a religious impression not to be found in more advanced works of art.

Cheung Lai Kuen happy by preparing a symbolic Cup from the Heavenly Pond to counteract the forces emanating from the Three Curses Position.

On the other hand, Penfield has found that electrical stimulation deep into and below the temporal lobe in the neocortex and limbic complex can produce a waking state in epileptics very similar to that of dreams denuded of their symbolic and fantastic aspects.

His mediating, symbolic role in Romantic culture, however, extended his earlier mediations to include a new generation of young people, a new connection between Enlightenment traditions and Romantic ideas, and a growing involvement with people who expressed their political concerns in art or literature rather than in government institutions.

Greek Revolution became another prominent theme in his mediating, symbolic involvement with nineteenth-century Romantic culture.

The mediating, symbolic history of Lafayette could therefore link politics and culture as well as nations or historical eras or generations.