If one believes that the most fundamental physical entities (quarks, leptons, bosons, or whatever physics will ultimately settle upon) are devoid of any mental attributes, and if one also believes that some systems of these entities, such as human brains, do possess mental attributes, one is espousing some kind of doctrine of the emergence of mind.
Construct validity is the degree to which a test actually measures the mental attribute it claims to measure (Brown, 2000); for the MATE, the attribute is thought to be an individual's acceptance of the theory of evolution (Rutledge and Warden, 1999).
Better HEI scores have been associated with positive health outcomes; however, the relationship between diet quality and psychological resilience, a mental health attribute for coping with adversity, has not been assessed.
With regard to the ubiquity of the mental, we might wonder whether every thing has a mind (or associated mental attributes) or whether there is, even from within a panpsychist view of the world, a viable distinction between things with minds and things lacking minds (as we have seen, the world-mind form of panpsychism may have the resources to fund such a distinction).
looks at the combination of skills as well as physical and mental attributes a modern top player requires.
In the words of Patrick Murphy, fellow players considered him "on a different plane majestic, assured, poised, a devastating amalgam of the physical and mental attributes that make up a great batsman".
"It's called a Test match because it's a test of both your physical and your mental attributes, and when you play a good side you expect to be getting tested.
Some even see dyslexia as an advantage because of the mental attributes often associated with the condition, such as lateral thinking, spatial reasoning and pattern recognition.
Yet for all the talk of technical excellence, the main focus of our chat was centred on the tactical and mental attributes required by a scrum-half hoping to prosper in the higher reaches of the sport.
Firstly, a list of the physical and mental attributes crucial to success in sport was drawn up.
