Sentence examples for mental descriptions from inspiring English sources

Mental descriptions explain actions by rationalizing them making them intelligible in light of the agent's beliefs and purposes.

The lack of strict laws covering events under mental descriptions is thus an insuperable barrier to any attempt to bring the mental within the framework of unified physical science.

Ryle's most important work was The Concept of Mind, published in 1949, in which he argued that the Cartesian dogma of the 'Ghost in the Machine' was the result of a 'category-mistake', confusing mental descriptions with the language of physical events.

Non-reductive physicalists argue that although the mind is not a separate substance, mental properties supervene on physical properties, or that the predicates and vocabulary used in mental descriptions and explanations are indispensable, and cannot be reduced to the language and lower-level explanations of physical science.

Put more simply, events that cannot be distinguished under some physical description cannot be distinguished under a mental description either.

However, while the mental is not reducible to the physical, every mental event can be paired with some physical event — that is, every mental description of an event can be paired with a physical description of the very same event.

The interaction claim itself should be understood as follows: some events that have a mental description or instantiate a mental property cause and are caused by events that have a physical description or instantiate a physical property.

If this means that the cause has a mental property (in virtue of which it satisfies a mental description) and a physical property (in virtue of which it satisfies a physical description), we are faced with a further question.

In particular, it is possible that a mental event — an event given under some mental description — will be causally related to some physical event — an event given under a physical description — and yet there will be no strict law covering those events under just those descriptions.

It can be during school, on a train or at home, etc. Begin to create a mental description inside your head of people, places and things you want to be involved in this place.

Users' mental model descriptions and the experts' design model were derived from in-depth interviews combined with self-constructed (and verified) diagrams.