Sentence examples for characteristic of mind from inspiring English sources

Proposals that make irreducibility into a defining characteristic of mind or body are unacceptable; for they rule out reductionist approaches by fiat.

On this objection, the striving doctrine uses a kind of metaphorical language, the term 'striving', where a precise and literal account of what it is that is characteristic of mind is required.

Indeed, the belief that imagery (as opposed to verbal thought) is more characteristic of minds that are somehow defective or undeveloped was not confined to, and did not originate with, the Nazis and their sympathizers; it seems to have been widespread in the early 20th century.

By this time he had acquired those characteristics of mind and body that were to fit him for his African career.

"Madame silently extracted the keys and with characteristic presence of mind dropped them in the one place she could be sure no one would ever look: down her ample bosom," Brandon writes.

"Yet, on reflection, I am sure that many will recognise it to be a decision of great courage and characteristic clarity of mind and action.

But it is characteristic of Williams' mind that he tends to express his intellectual opinions in baseball terms.

And the main characteristic of that mind is emotional avoidance, an idiot-savant obliviousness that is grimly funny to encounter at first but that begins eventually to wear out its welcome.

Groups can legitimately be said to have beliefs and other states characteristic of a mind in particular cases, e.g., when the group is organized around such beliefs.

On the assumption that phenomenal consciousness is an evolved characteristic of human minds, at least, and therefore that epiphenomenalism is false, then an attempt to understand the biological functions of consciousness may provide the best chance of identifying its occurrence in different species.

This seems a characteristic European cast of mind.