Sentence examples for mental being from inspiring English sources

In Quodlibet XIV, q. 5 Godfrey contrasts mental being with extramental being and then divides the latter into being per se and being per accidens.

When the suitcase Rosie was carrying when she presumably made her independent escape turns up in an abandoned building, Frank is forced to make peace with his alcoholic father, his belligerent mother and his "mental" brothers and sisters ("mental" being "a family tradition").

It is unacceptable to Mulla Sadra precisely because it is predicated upon a denial of mental being.

Exemplata, or essences, are thus secondary objects of divine knowledge, indeed they are doubly so, and as such they seem to have a purely mental being.

"I'm actually scared for their mental being.

I have an ex that would say I want too much of his emotional and mental being.

For Auriol, then, it is intrinsic to each and every thing to have two different types of being: real or extra-mental being on the one hand, and intentional or objective being on the other.

On the one hand, Aristotle asserted that each thing is related to truth in the same way as it is to being; on the other hand, Aristotle excluded being-as-true from the consideration of metaphysics, since it is only a kind of intra-mental being.

Auriol holds that the first of these explanatory requirements would not be fulfilled by any theory of concepts according to which the concept is a type of representation or token of the thing, if this representation has real -- albeit mental -- being.

His mental outlook is excellent".

Mental retardation is usually severe.