Sentence examples for mental force from inspiring English sources
But he's become a mental force too.
"The Germans have always shown physical might, tactical powers, mental force and have always had the players with a certain South American touch like [Felix ] Magath [Lothar] Matthaus, [Franz ] Beckenbauer
"However," he hastily added, "if I were to replace it with an IPhone 6, there is no doubt I would've been able to bend it with my mental force".
Rather, there is one mental force that does both resulting in either knowledge or firm belief.
Hume infers the existence of "habits" as a kind of mental "force" (EHU 5.2.2) analogous to gravity; the discovery of the "the principles of association," which in the Abstract he calls his most important achievement [see the section on Association in the entry on Hume in this Encyclopedia], are, then, analogous to the laws of motion.
"Like and equal are two entirely different things," she thinks, fighting against the mental force of "IT".
"The self may not be an aloof independent 'ruler' of body and mind, but neither is it an illusory product of impersonal physical and mental forces," he writes.
He compares the analyst to the surgeon, "who puts aside all his feelings, even his human sympathy, and concentrates his mental forces on the single aim of performing the operation as skillfully as possible".
"Either the device is extremely thin so that it bends when even a weak force is implied on it – which is hard to believe for Apple has been conducting many tests and experiments – or the energy and excitement of the millions of consumers stirred up their mental forces causing the IPhone to bend".
(The general notion of mental "forces" was not entirely new with Herder, but can already be found before him in Rationalists such as Wolff and Süßmilch).
Moreover, there is nothing in the original principles of Newtonian mechanics to stop mental forces arising autonomously and spontaneously, in line with common assumptions about the operation of the mind (Papineau 2002: Appendix Section 3).
