Focusing again on the interwar period, it was the story of Christopher Banks, a famous society detective whose life has never really risen clear of the early trauma of his parents' disappearance in Shanghai, and who believes that he can still crack the case – which, it gradually becomes apparent, operates as some kind of mental stand-in for the approaching global conflict.
"His work last week during the first camp supported our contention that it was not too soon for him to get started again, from either a physical or a mental stand-point.
After Rachel functioned as my mental stand-in for months and months, I realized I'd be an idiot not to go with my instinctual choice".
Mental states stand in relation to actions as cause to effect.
The study found that households with the most serious disabilities – measured across a range of specific functional difficulties, including mobility and mental health – stand to lose most as a result of tax and benefit reforms, most notably as a result of cuts introduced under universal credit.
However, repetitive tasks involving mental labor stand to be automated, much as repetitive tasks involving manual labor have been for generations.
Neil Campbell (1998 and 2005) argues for an interpretation of Anomalous Monism on which while mental events stand in causal relations with each other, reason explanations are not causal explanations.
In a later section (5.3) we will look at another objection related to the anomalism principle that it is inconsistent with Davidson's invocation of the doctrine that mental properties stand in a relation of supervenience to physical properties.
Americans have always had a love-hate relationship with the smarter members of their society, taking pride in the accomplishments, but often resenting those whose mental gifts stand out.
There was no association between PA and mental health (Stand. coeff. 0.15, p = 0.376).
Higher values in the range of 0 100 in the two subscales physical and mental health stand for better perceived health.
