Sentence examples for mental occurrence from inspiring English sources

Moore agreed with Bradley that it is not the mental occurrence that is important to logic.

In each case, a mental occurrence appears to produce a series of complex and coordinated bodily motions, which then have additional downstream effects in the physical world.

According to Bradley, the notion of idea understood as a mental state or mental occurrence is not the notion of "idea" relevant to logic or to truth understood as a relationship between our ideas and reality.

By contrast, it is a familiar doctrine that what the agent does, in the first instance, in order to cause his arm to move is to form a distinctive mental occurrence whose intrinsic psychological nature and content is immediately available to introspection.

Experiences, i.e., conscious mental occurrences, are able to present themselves to a self.

First, it seems that such mental occurrences are hardly ever, if ever, intentional actions.

Bertrand Russell, in his behaviorist-influenced 1921, also accomodates inactive pleasure by analyzing pleasure relationally and negatively, as the property of mental occurrences consisting in their stimulating no reflex or voluntary movements that do not tend to prolong the stimulating occurrences themselves (1921, pp. 71-72).

But Meinong stresses the point that experiences like representations, judgments, feelings and desires are usually directed to an object (1904b, §1; 1899, §2, 185 [141]), and he interprets the intentionality of such mental occurrences in a relational rather than in an adverbial manner ("I am sensing (something) red" instead of "I am sensing redly").

Explaining his sudden change of mind, wrote: It is the duty of a psychologist to examine the totality of mental occurrences, and he has no right to close his eyes on that which seems to transcend our present powers of explanation.

The probability of common mental disorders occurrence differs significantly among migrant groups according to their region of origin.

Co-morbid features include mental retardation (occurrence ∼30 60%) [1], anxiety and mood disorders [2], and seizures (∼20%) [3].