[52] In his 1970 essay, titled simply Piaget's theory, Piaget says that reflecting abstraction is the general constructive process of mathematics: it has served, for example, to construct algebra out of arithmetic, as a set of operations on operations [ note 13 ].52] In his 1970 essay, titled simply Piaget's theory, Piaget says that reflecting abstraction is the general constructive process of mathematics: it has served, for example, to construct algebra out of arithmetic, as a set of operations on operations [ note 13 ].
symbolism. n. 1. the representation of something in symbolic form or the attribution of symbolic meaning or character to something. 2. a system of symbols or symbolic representation. 3. a symbolic significance or quality.
Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the style originates with the 1857 publication of Charles Baudelaire 's Les Fleurs du mal.