Sentence examples for mental conceptions from inspiring English sources

Converted by his brother Asanga to the Yogachara, Vasubandhu wrote the Vijnapti-matrata-siddhi ("Establishment of the Thesis of Cognitions Only"), in which he defended the thesis that the supposedly external objects are merely mental conceptions.

In their epistemology, whereas the Vaibhashikas are direct realists, the Sautrantikas hold a sort of representationism, according to which the external world is only inferred from the mental conceptions that alone are directly apprehended.

Two interpretive communities are constructing their own mental conceptions of a speaker named "Barack Obama", and for each community, the speech counts as evidence for their own interpretation.The difference, however, is that William Blake is dead, whereas Barack Obama is very much alive and reads the responses of people who listen to his speeches.

Political and social influences may at first seem like what are herein referred to as "ultimate/secondary" causes for non-acceptance of evolution (Table 2) because they provide the milieu in which other factors act, rather than acting directly to cause particular behaviors or mental conceptions.

Though thus far agreeing with the Buddhist Yogacharins, Gaudapada rejected their thesis that chitta, or mind, is real and that there is a real flow of mental conception.

"Fruitful," when applied to humanity, doesn't mean only physical reproduction; it refers "to the process of mental conception," the power of human beings to learn and reason, and so to create more knowledge.

It consists of mental conception of the body, sexual function, sexual function satisfaction, and attitude towards future, side effects of systemic treatments, side effects in the patient's breast and hand and worries about hair loss.

Criticism would thus be a process of arguing inferentially from outward evidence back to inward content; creation would be a process of finding outward correlates or carriers for that prior inward content; and artistic intention would be articulated as a full mental pre-conception of the contingently finished (or "externalized", as we would then call it) work.

Scholars are worried about the mental images and conceptions that the general public forms about the origins of practices that Tahirih condemns.

Stakeholders in the transition process may well hold differing conceptions of mental health, mental illness or disorder/problems [ 20- 22].

Although we employed causal analyses in this study, we cannot completely exclude the possibility of this reverse causation because we did not assess pre-conception mental health status.