The phrase "acts of thinking" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the processes or actions involved in thinking, often in discussions about cognition or philosophy.
Example: "The philosopher argued that acts of thinking are essential to understanding the nature of consciousness."
Alternatives: "processes of thought" or "cognitive actions".
On Chatton's view, concepts are modifications of the soul, and in particular my concept of X is nothing more than my act of thinking about X. Concepts are not intermediaries that we then think with, but are rather simply our very acts of thinking themselves, i.e., my concept of X is just my intellectio (=act of thinking) of instances of X.
Token-token identity theory does not claim that these physical states have anything in particular in common, still less that all acts of thinking about the theorem have something in common.
However, unlike Reid, who was later to argue for a rigorous distinction between sensations, considered as states of feeling experienced by the mind, and perceptions, considered as acts of thinking something about an object, Condillac maintained that sensations do lend themselves to being treated as ideas.
So although "person" is a noun, it is one whose reference is fixed by verbs: the acts of thinking, remembering, feeling, acting.
Are dicta particular acts of thinking, concrete events or facts, or entities having the same sort of being as universals?
The objects of one's 'mental acts' of thinking, judging, etc. are often objects that 'transcend,' and exist independently of these acts (states of mind) that are directed towards them (that 'intend' them, in Husserl's terms).
It amply fulfils his claim to be "a report on the act of thinking".
Mr. Castle, now a soft-spoken 80-year-old, equated the act of drawing to the act of thinking.
Now, thanks to new technologies, it was finally possible to create pictures, however crude, of the brain in the act of thinking.
He says that philosophy requires a certain rare and innate ability — the ability to step outside yourself and observe your own mind in the act of thinking.
The act of thinking about Worm's jawbone has raised several questions that I have not been able to answer to my satisfaction.
