The phrase "a mental event" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing psychological phenomena, cognitive processes, or experiences that occur in the mind.
Example: "The study aimed to explore the relationship between emotions and a mental event that triggers memory recall."
Alternatives: "a cognitive occurrence" or "a psychological phenomenon."
It's quite a mental event".
A recession is a mental event, and every recession has its own unique spirit.
And she also remembered quite vividly "having seen Cump [his boyhood nickname] in the seize of it in California," when the bank had failed, a mental event that was repeated at least twice prior to the war.
Thus, by the time they have boarded the Eurostar, the journey has long taken on a distinctly metaphysical tone: 'A tunnel is a mental event; a technological creation of a primal condition,' Lao suggests in one of his sporadic Intuitions in the Dark.
An act of presentation is a mental event which takes place in our mind at a certain time.
Now suppose a mental event, such as a decision to turn on the light, causes Gus to move his finger, thereby flipping the light switch.
1. Strictly speaking, one can distinguish two versions of epiphenomenalism, (a) mental events have no effects; and (b) mental events may have effects on other mental events, so long as the latter do not have any physical effects, nor any effects on further mental events that eventually have any physical effects.
In their case, however, since the elimination of superimposition is what characterizes a reliable cognition, they are led to admit that a perception, although being a single mental event, is both a reliable cognition with regard to some aspects of the appearing object and a non-reliable cognition with regard to other aspects.
We boast about our control of our environment, but our technologists still haven't mastered such a funda mental event as a two‐foot snowfall.
The only way a purely mental event could contribute to a purely physical one would be to contribute some feature not already determined by a purely physical event.
On one understanding such talk is taken to be introducing the notion of a conscious mental event that is not a genuine perception but which is introspectively indiscriminible from a genuine perception of the world.
