At the center of this project was his assertion of mind-body dualism, the notion, as Shorto explains, that "the mind and its thoughts exist in a different category or somehow on a different plane from the physical world".
He studies the effect of genital or sexual trauma on the body – a data set that now has many studies to support the assertion of strong mind-body connections.
He begins from the assertion that the mind of the individual experiences sensations.
Representationism, also called Representationalism, philosophical theory of knowledge based on the assertion that the mind perceives only mental images (representations) of material objects outside the mind, not the objects themselves.
What they say is seldom tentative – they make impudently categorical assertions about Salinger's state of mind and the relationship of his life to his art – and yet its authority is, perversely, undermined by just being another voice in the gabble.
Both of these guys are extremely credible, while the HRC statement not only calls both of their accounts of the incident inaccurate but makes blanket, generalized assertions as to the state of mind of every single HRC staffer at the event, and even of every staffer working for HRC in any capacity.
We propose, based on the burgeoning evidence of the fundamental role of metaphor in thought (for review, see Gibbs, 2008), that any sort of figurative language, including simile, may potentially produce or approximate the effects of a categorical assertion in the minds of people whose "frame systems" are activated.
Minimal beliefs would need only to be states of mind expressed in assertions by indicative sentences, while robust beliefs would meet some stronger requirement of representationality (Blackburn 2006).
But even some Chinese analysts say they wonder if the new leadership team fully anticipated the response to the latest assertion of rights — or had in mind a clear Plan B if it met with strong resistance.
It often lacks interior drama, personal obsessions or the weird assertions of an individual mind.
Israel, if it stands for anything in the Arab mind, is an assertion of Jewish equality.
