Freedom wrote:
What would be an example for concrete and abstract thinking?
In order to think, I have to be able to visualize what is being said inside my head. If you say "tree," I think tree--leaves--bamboo--panda bears---grizzly bears--grizzly bears in a stream catching fish--I'm hungry and would like some salmon to eat... If you want me to understand, I need "the weeping willow tree by the lake" which is much more concrete because otherwise my thinking will go off into visual abstraction.
If you say, "parts of speech are the categories to which a word is assigned in accordance to its syntactic function," I would have no idea what you said because the only things in there that make a picture in my head are "categories" and "word." That is too abstract for me to understand.
I don't know what concrete thinking would be. People who think verbally and can string thoughts together word to word?