Realists believed in the extra-mental existence of common natures (or essences); nominalists did not.
He is a realist, since he defends the extra-mental existence of universals (ibid., p. 68), but he is open to nominalism, as he thinks that there is not a close correspondence between the elements and structures of language and elements and structures of the world.
Mental existence with physic support.
Mental existence without material support.
Applying the belief theory as a way forward, we use the change of relations between two categories of mental existence but social relations for the definition of ritual.
Furthermore, according to the kinds of mental existence what we want to change in ritual, we classify two kinds of ritual.
Freud himself had called anxiety "a riddle whose solution would be bound to throw a flood of light on our whole mental existence," and the first edition of the D.S.M. identified anxiety as the "chief characteristic" of all neuroses.
For instance, physical or mental existence, particularity or universality, do not form part of "horseness" as such.
After distinguishing between the mental existence, Cai (2013) defines religion as an association between two types of mental existence.
Mental existence shares the same qualities, features and description as extra-mental existence because it is merely another mode of existence, a certain sense of the term.
