The phrase "an 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: "Creativity is often seen as an act of mind, where ideas are generated and shaped through thought."
Alternatives: "a mental process" or "a cognitive action".
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.
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.
To achieve recognition of a unified object, the mind must perform an act of judgment; it must find how various represented elements are connected to one another.
How, by an act of her mind, could she rise over death — and sin, too, the sin of her curse on Pearl — and arrive on the other side?
A remembrance is an act of the mind and it is in virtue of this act that we have knowledge of the past.
In the via moderna, a concept is just an act of the mind representing singulars in a more or less indifferent manner, yielding a more or less universal signification for the term.
Once unlocked by an act of will, the mind poured out the words smoothly.
While fewer people these days choose to peregrinate by foot, fewer people can envision the journey of faith -- language commonly used during Lent -- as an act of not only mind and spirit, but also body.
The thought of such an act of destruction, in the minds of fans at least, may be too much to bear, but there is still cause to be optimistic about the future of the vault.
Miller condemned Freud's change of mind as an act of cowardice and a betrayal of children; and, distancing herself from these ideas, in 1988 resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Association, which represented Freudian thinking.
The formal concept was the act of mind or conception that represented an object, and the objective concept was the object represented.
