The prospects of carrying out the neutral monistic constructions of mind and matter are tied to the availability of sufficiently flexible notions of construction or reduction.
A John Berger story advances the idea of the suburbs as a construction of the mind, while Hanif Kureishi's manuscript of "The Buddha of Suburbia" marks a first break from insularity and the emergence of the immigrant experience.Yet it remains England's "green and pleasant land," as immortalised by Blake, which to this correspondent dominates the show.
Not an emanent derivative of concepts as Hegel posited, reality is irrational and incomprehensible, and the concept, only an abstract construction of our mind.
But in fact our grudge is disconnected from our own heart; while born out of our pain, it becomes a construction of the mind, a story of what happened to us.
Albert attempted to formulate an answer to Porphyry's famous problem of universals — namely, do the species according to which we classify beings exist in themselves or are they merely constructions of the mind?
Boethius, however, goes on to give it his own particular twist, by suggesting that the universals produced by abstraction are not merely the constructions of the mind, but do grasp reality as it is.
That is to say, although only God, God's thoughts, and the perceptible individuals exist in the strong sense as subsistences, all types of genera are beings; they may be beings in a different sense, but they all are beings and not constructions of our mind devoid of reality.
The claim is that a verbal report of proper perception is strictly impossible, for such a report requires conceptualization, which is not perceptual in character; the objects of conceptual awareness are spontaneous constructions of our mind and are essentially linguistic in character.
Thoughts, many times, are your own creation therefore they are mental constructions of your mind that are based on your imaginations.
But it is also maybe the most beautiful construction of the human mind.
