The phrase "act of mind" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a mental process or decision-making that occurs within an individual's mind.
Example: "The decision to pursue a new career path was an act of mind that required careful consideration."
Alternatives: "mental decision" or "cognitive process".
Idle though it may seem, the act of mind wandering is often anything but mindless; it can lead to improvements in creative thinking.
The formal concept was the act of mind or conception that represented an object, and the objective concept was the object represented.
The pragmatic pleasure had in beholding beauty is only contingently aroused, but in point of fact it always is aroused by such beholding, because the having of an intuition is an act of mind, and therefore the will is brought into play.
The only likely act of mind that might be expressed in a promise is a mental act of willing to be obligated to perform the promised action, as this conforms to our common view that we bind ourselves by choosing to be bound.
In a sense, our discipleship today -- which is primarily in the form of teaching and preaching, reading and writing -- echoes how we travel today: it too is largely an act of mind and spirit, relegating the body to being merely a vessel to carry what is deemed essential to our daily existence.
Her acts of mind are more bracing than the story of SH, which feels thin and sepia-toned, like a photograph put through one of those antiquing apps.
Moreover, how far should we distinguish between so-called formal concepts (or acts of mind) and objective concepts (whatever it is that is the object of the act of understanding)?
Further, Brentano's attempt to state in a 'descriptive' or 'phenomenological' psychology, based on how intentional presentations present themselves, the fundamental kinds to which they belong and their necessary interrelationships, may plausibly be interpreted as an effort to articulate the philosophically salient, highly general phenomenal character of intentional states (or acts) of mind.
For many years, influenced by the "Kubrick as God" school of film critics, I had believed the director capable of the most extraordinary acts of mind-control, or Machiavellian manipulation, on the basis of his having pulled off Dr Strangelove - the great, anarchist-pacifist comedy about thermonuclear war.
Seeing is an act of the mind, not just the eyes.
Every higher act of the mind, intellectual, aesthetic, or moral, is, paradoxically, also an exercise in self-doubt, self-scrutiny.
