For this blurring of personal and collectively recognised data is inherent to what Rist does: creating fantasy spaces within which to play with the worldly constructs (from religious dogma to scientific and civic laws) that determine thought and action.
If the thought experiments are right about this, then internal states do not wholly determine thought content.
Therefore, on Natorp's view, strange as it may sound, the phenomenon "Mars" is an hypothesis, an object certainly, but for all that an ideal and never fully determined thought-object; moreover, the motion of this object, too, is ideal: it can be calculated with the utmost exactitude.
But this will not help those who, like the present author, simply do not understand how externally determined thought content can be genuinely a feature of the thinker's mental state — as opposed to merely reflecting an externally imposed classification of that state adopted for essentially pragmatic and social reasons).
You may not completely buy the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis – the deliciously sci-fi name given by linguists to the idea that the words we use determine the thoughts we think.
In "Overthinking," Sala seeks the help of a psychic to determine the thoughts of a dead artist; sitting at a patio table on a blustery day, the medium offers generalizations that are more or less useless in assessing the question at hand.
In this study, it is aimed to determine the thoughts of students and their sensations for construction course in the first year of architectural education.
The study makes clear that marital status cannot be assumed to determine recipients' thoughts and feelings about the donor or donor information.
A questionnaire was given to determine students' thoughts about the VM system: both the VM group and the LM group filled out this questionnaire to rate the content, framework and subjective effects of the VM course.
