Sentence examples for a mental construct from inspiring English sources

"Race" is a mental construct, not a physical reality.

Maybe it is just a mental construct or a convention people devised to help organise experience.

"It was sort of a mental construct, a composite," Ms. Barten said.

On this view, "we" are endlessly changing patterns of molecules or thought processes; any sense of fixity or coherence is just a mental construct.

This is of course not at all what happens in the film; Neo discovers his world (or our world) is a mental construct created by malevolent computers, not by women.

Constructive epistemic modeling is the idea that our understanding of a natural system through a scientific model is a mental construct that continually develops through learning about and from the model.

The ego I believe my self to be is a mental construct--an idea I have about myself that arises from my body's sensory data informing my brain 24/7 from birth onwards that "I" am a vulnerable, separate stand-alone unit called a fleshly human being who must struggle and fight for survival.

Belief can be defined as a propositional mental construct that affirms or denies the truth of a state of affairs and is closely linked to basic judgment processes (Harris et al. 2007).

Ideal type, a common mental construct in the social sciences derived from observable reality although not conforming to it in detail because of deliberate simplification and exaggeration.

Psycho Spaghetti Westerns features wide horizontal paintings, in which landscape becomes a surreal mental construct.

Whether we understand the social world (including health systems) as operating through systems, or we take systems thinking simply as a useful mental construct to deal with the complexities of our social world [ 1], there is a growing attention to systems thinking in multiple fields of development practice and research, including global health.