Sentence examples for a mental content from inspiring English sources

However, this does not mean that there is nothing inside my consciousness: there is a mental content, through which the aether is presented and judged as non-existing.

The puzzle is that any adequate semantic theory must be able to make sense of the notion of mistaken usage of an expression or tokening of a mental content, because meanings/contents are individuated by their conditions of correct usage what makes "water" mean or apply to what it does is determined by conditions under which "water" is correctly tokened.

Boiled down to its mere essentials, communication entails transferring a mental content from one brain to another.

If you are happy that it is raining, you can grasp your happiness in inner perception, but not by means of a separate mental content.

And he held that a theory of mental content requires an inegalitarian theory of properties.

Since the appeal to teleological norms involves the idea that the norms constitutive of a telos determine mental content it constitutes a form of CD normativism (see section 3.2).

For example, an internalist about mental content accepts, and an externalist denies, that what a mental state is about supervenes upon neurophysiological properties, or "what's in the head".

This is ironic, given that Descartes is often held up as a paradigmatic example of an internalist about mental content.

Bridges proposes that this core claim of a causal theory of mental content is a constitution thesis.

The second, and more fundamental explanation would then come at the level of a theory of mental content.

Second, he claims that natural scientists do not appeal to constitutive natures, so that one need not develop a theory of mental content that invokes them.