Sentence examples for impossible state of mind from inspiring English sources
(Mele 1987a; 2001) The requirement that the self-deceiver holds contradictory beliefs raises the 'static' paradox, since it seems to pose an impossible state of mind, namely, consciously believing p and ~p at the same time.
But if believing both a proposition and its negation in full awareness is an impossible state of mind to be in, then self-deception as it has traditionally been understood seems to be impossible as well.
Ethical egoism, then, recommends an impossible state of affairs.
Although perhaps there are impossible states of affairs or situations, we take it that there are no impossible facts.
I was startled by the utter smoothness of his delivery here, which went hand in glove with his humane presentation of the role — this was a Germont who was impossible to hate, his state of mind a complex mixture of paternal concern and bourgeois convention.
But those convictions were brought as a group before New York State's highest court for review on Tuesday, where a panel of judges wrestled with a thorny legal question: Can people become so intoxicated that it is impossible for them to be in the state of mind the law defines as depraved indifference?
According to Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness meditation addresses this state of mind by cultivating a state of mind that is "on purpose" and "attentive" to reduce "mind wandering" (see [ 19] for the negative effects of mind wandering).
So, while Śaṃkara distinguishes between what Western philosophers would call cognitions and emotions, he does not present a purely cognitive state of mind without emotions as the ideal state of mind because such a state would be impossible.
A place or a state of mind?
