Sentence examples for current mental state from inspiring English sources

Sherri Hunter, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office, said that state law gave Mr. Rakowitz the right to a jury review and rehearing every two years to examine his current mental state.

In a recent motion to the court, Anthony J. Natale, a federal public defender and one of Mr. Padilla's lawyers, said, "Like many aspects of Mr. Padilla's case, his claim of incompetency is unique in that it is the government that is squarely to blame for his current mental state and his concomitant ability to stand trial".

Third, acrophase was associated with current mental state, being significantly correlated with the level of manic but not depressive symptoms.

He thought that a person can be justified in believing many foundational propositions about his own current mental state.

They respect the French but England are favourites and, given their current mental state, I see them winning well.

Reid does not deny that memory is itself a current mental state, nor does he deny that memory presupposes a past apprehension.

According to another, one's evidence consists exclusively of one's current mental states (Conee and Feldman 2004).

Importantly, one's current mental states can be caused in part by mental states one was in at times when one was unconscious.

That suggests that we should give weight to now-for-now preferences whose objects are not restricted to conscious features of current mental states.

We can then say that you are psychologically continuous, now, with a past or future being just if some of your current mental states relate to those he or she is in then by a chain of psychological connections.

Of course, the suggestion that one might place sense data, sensory receptor stimulations, known propositions, or one's current mental states in a plastic bag (or dig them up from the ground, or send them to a laboratory, or …) is of dubious intelligibility.