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Realists also believe that, whereas physical objects are mind-independent, mental objects are not.

We will assume token identity in what follows: minds, mental events, and any other mental "objects" are physical (see the mind/brain identity theory).

But the project of construction became even more ambitious: both physical and mental objects are now understood as constructions out of neutral elements.

What kind of mental objects are letters?

It's worth emphasizing again that Croce's claim that intuition is expression, and consequently that works art are mental objects, is not just an application of his general idealism.

Mental representations of objects are exclusions because they exclude other representations.

In particular, it would seem that if we construct the mathematical objects, for example, if the mathematical objects are mental constructions of some kind, then resorting to impredicative definitions would produce an undesirable form of circularity.

Thus one might distinguish between the ontological constructivism of Brouwer and others who are led to constructive mathematics through a belief that mathematical objects are mental creations, and the epistemological constructivism of Richman and those who see constructive mathematics as characterised by its methodology, based on the use of intuitionistic logic.

Nominalists do admit that there are such things as piles of three eggs and ideas of the number 3 in people's heads, but they do not think that any of these things is the number 3. Of course, when nominalists deny that the number 3 is a physical or mental object, they are in agreement with Platonists.

Converted by his brother Asanga to the Yogachara, Vasubandhu wrote the Vijnapti-matrata-siddhi ("Establishment of the Thesis of Cognitions Only"), in which he defended the thesis that the supposedly external objects are merely mental conceptions.

As to the first, those who think of intention as a mental state could explain why its objects are restricted to actions by saying more about the kind of state it is.