Sentence examples for bodily facts from inspiring English sources

The unpleasant bodily facts of disease are entirely ignored: a single graceful seizure signals that Annabel's final crisis is at hand.

Feelings in their immediacy are "expressed" for if they were not, if they were not also sensible and bodily facts ("psycho-physical phenomena," as the positivists used to call them) they would not be concrete things, and so they would be nothing at all.

Some of the time we spend tossing and turning may even result from misconceptions about sleep and our bodily needs: in fact neither our bodies nor our brains are built for the roughly one-third of our lives that we spend in bed.

However, it has been urged against this view that the relevant causal link needs to be that holding between bodily states (in fact, brain states) and mental states (Hyslop 1995, 36 39 and 53 54).

8 In fact, bodily states likely become more central to the mind with aging.

From a psychological viewpoint, the SE treatment was directed to help the patient to acknowledge that he had survived and to bodily integrate the fact that the danger had passed.

But singers, like dancers and athletes, have to face the facts of bodily decline.

According to the reductionist conception, the feeling of body ownership has its source in some more fundamental facts about bodily awareness.

Patients don't always choose PAS for the most obvious reason, intractable pain: men can't bear the collapse of normal bodily functions and the fact that other people have to cope with them; women are more likely to despair of lives in which all the things that gave them any joy or satisfaction are now beyond them.

One may, however, wonder if one is entitled to draw such a metaphysical conclusion from the epistemological fact of bodily IEM (Chen, 2011; Smith, 2006).

Similarly, Gurwitsch (1985, 31) asserts: "There is no moment in our conscious life when we are completely unaware of our bodily posture, of the fact that we are walking, standing, sitting, lying down".