Sentence examples for mental facts from inspiring English sources
The phrase "mental facts" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used in discussions related to psychology, philosophy, or cognitive science when referring to facts or information pertaining to mental processes or states. Example: "In cognitive psychology, researchers often explore the concept of mental facts to understand how our thoughts influence behavior."
Thus, there are no mental facts over and above physical facts.
So, for Fine, in claiming that certain physical facts ground the mental facts, we remain neutral on whether there really are any mental facts because in making grounding claims we remain neutral on whether there are any facts whatsoever.
So, on his conception of grounding, in claiming that certain physical facts ground the mental facts we remain neutral on whether there really are any mental facts in the first place.
But surely any adequate formulation of non-reductive physicalism should take a stand on whether there really are mental facts.
And if fixing the physical facts is alone enough to fix the mental facts, then a zombie world seems impossible.
On the other hand, emergentist wants to agree with the physicalist that mental facts are necessitated by, and so supervene on, the physical facts.
You must come to understand that simple mental fact.
(For arguments that extra-mental facts in the world often constitute evidence, see McDowell 1994 and Ginsborg 2007; for further discussion see Williamson 2002 and Dancy 2000, ch.6).
Our reporting is based on a commodity that seems to be lacking in Mr Correa's mental universe: facts.
If we think of belief formation as a mental act, facts about the contents of the agent's beliefs as events, and closeness to truth as a desirable feature of outcomes, then we can use expected utility theory to evaluate degrees of belief in terms of their expected closeness to truth.
In one of these letters Kilmer writes that he "believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time," and he "wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental – in fact I wanted Faith".
