Sentence examples for cases of mind from inspiring English sources
While they do not claim to know why the hair dryer burns out before the big date; why the computer some days seems that it knows what is wanted of it, or why a driver coos, "come on baby," when cranking over the car on a freezing morning -- they say such things can be cases of mind over matter.
According to this incompatibilist conception, each of these influences undermines the agent's autonomy; cases of mind control simply call our attention to the fact that whenever our motives are causally determined by events over which we have no control, their power does not reflect our authority.
But since Kant was not familiar with the contents of Hume's earlier Treatise of Human Nature, he did not know that Hume too had generalized his approach to causality to the cases of mind and body, nor did he know that Hume may have tried to sidestep Berkeley's commitment to substances but not his ontological idealism altogether by his theory of both minds and bodies as bundles of perceptions.
Only the reliability of MinD was low, which may be related to the relatively fewer number of cases of MinD.
Anyway, Paige dispatched such questions with the most famous of the dozens of aphorisms that have become attached with his name: "Age is a case of mind over matter.
If Wilder's reaction was not a case of mind games and management of expectations, it was madness that adds to the fans' prevailing mystification.
"It's a case of mind over matter," says Read, who before he retired would stave off boredom during long swims by thinking of it as a normal day at the office.
Furyk's two-under-par 69 at Conway Farms Golf Club on Saturday, which left him at 13-under 200, one stroke ahead of Steve Stricker, was a case of mind over magic.
