Mental Acts was much indebted to Wittgenstein.
We based on the assumption that application of dialectical mental acts allows think of possible relations taking in account relations existing in reality.
Every day we perform mental acts that transform inert objects into things of meaning, beauty and desire, reviving the world by creative acts of imagination.
As they snake through stanzas of ornamental complexity, Howard's long sentences exemplify the complicated mental acts through which we all struggle to shape and analyze appearances.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is a biologically based psychiatric disorder characterized by persistent, distressing thoughts or images and accompanying ritual behaviors or mental acts that a person is driven to perform.
What this suggests, Professor Banaji says, is that taking one's place in a tribe, and accepting the tribe's place in a larger society, are mental acts that happen regardless of the group's purpose or meaning.
The therapeutic results of psychoanalysis depend upon the replacement of unconscious mental acts by conscious ones and are operative in so far as that process has significance in relation to the disorder under treatment.
It is enough to say that psychoanalysis, in its character of the psychology of the deepest, unconscious mental acts, promises to become the link between Psychiatry and all of these other fields of study.
Compulsions are repetitive behaviors such as hand-washing, ordering, checking, or mental acts (e.g., praying, counting, repeating words silently), the goal of which is to prevent or reduce anxiety or distress, not to provide pleasure or gratification.
They are not mental acts or episodes.
According to Brentano's theory, mental acts cannot have duration.
