Then, just as quickly, the girls' distinct minds would make their respective presences felt: Tatiana smiled at me while her sister fixated on the television, or Krista alone responded with a "Yeah?" to the call of her name.
Indeed, one pure experience might be part of two distinct minds, as James explains in a chapter entitled "How Two Minds Can Know One Thing".
Design, he believes, has the power to determine a distinct mind-set, something he needs if Square is to succeed as a mobile payment system.
Students in this class seemed to display one of two distinct mind-sets: 1) those who viewed "their data" as the data that they themselves had collected and 2) those who viewed "their data" as the collective set of data derived from their mutant group.
We lack, therefore, what Descartes would call a clear and distinct idea of the mind.
Descartes' famous argument for this position can be summarized as follows: Seth has a clear and distinct idea of his mind as a thinking thing that has no spatial extension (i.e., it cannot be measured in terms of length, weight, height, and so on).
Accordingly, Descartes attempted to broaden the limits of knowledge by proving to his own satisfaction that God exists; that the standard for knowing something is having a "clear and distinct" idea of it; that mind is more easily known than body; that the essence of matter is extension; and, finally, that most of his former beliefs are true.
But Malebranche thinks this doctrine has an air of mystery to it, and fails to capture the magnitude and character of our dependence: 'that general and confused term concourse, by means of which we would explain creatures' dependence on God, rouses not a single distinct idea in an attentive mind' (OC 1 440, LO 231).
He held to Descartes's views that the essence of matter is extension; that the essence of mind is thought; that material substance and mental substance are essentially, and really distinct; that mind and body interact; that while humans have souls, brutes and other living things are mere machines; and that material things operate by means of moving parts according to the laws of motion.
He has merely relied on the fact that he can doubt the existence of matter to conclude that matter is distinct from mind.
So science and religion can potter away in their distinct boxes, minding their own business.
