Such naive assurance of the outward reality of all mental distinctions, such touching confidence in the crudest identity of thought and existence, is worthy of the school which so loudly appeals to the name of Experience..
At one point, the cameraman asked him, rephrasing Edison's inspiration-perspiration binary, "Would you say that creative work is ten per cent mental and ninety per cent physical?" "Actually," Krakauer said, "the physical-mental distinction is something we're trying to break down here".
Among intentional mental states, a distinction is sometimes drawn between those that are de dicto (of the dictum or proposition) and those that are de re (of the thing).
[ 47] According to the Tokyo Declaration, the medical doctor should see it as a privilege to practice medicine in the service of humanity, to preserve and restore bodily and mental health without distinction as to persons, and to comfort and to ease the suffering of his or her patients.
Belgium thus makes the distinction between mental illness and mental anguish, which in and of itself enters the fraught territory of psychological pathology.
This distinction between mental illness and mental health is empirically validated, with only modest correlations between measures of depression and measures of psychological well-being, ranging from -0.40 to -0.55 [ 4, 5].
The distinction between mental and extra-mental is rooted in the Platonic distinction between sensible and intelligible being, and in the Avicennan distinction between existence and essence in contingents.
So, they try to extinguish one kind of mental phenomenon but their distinction is different from the distinction between feeling and thought.
Differences between tasks (at both behavioural and neuroanatomical levels) have resulted in a distinction between mental state reasoning ability and mental state decoding ability.
