Sentence examples for mental symbol from inspiring English sources

How then does that mental symbol get to refer to the Big Bang?

You are able to reflect upon your momentary anger or upon your feeling of shame without needing a kind of mental symbol of your anger or your feeling of shame.

It is one thing to regard the meaning of a mental symbol for conjunction as determined by the inferences a subject will make between mental representations that contain the symbol and those that do not.

It is something about the way we use our words or deploy our mental symbols in thought and action which effects this correlation between mental symbol and worldly referent.

It is not as if, unbeknownst to us, the shock waves of that cataclysmic event continue to reverberate some fourteen billion years later in human minds dislodging a mental symbol as if it were a loose tooth, this symbol referring to whatever it was that shook it free.

The child has begun to know how to deal with mental symbols and acquires abstract notions, such as "responsibility".

By treating propositional attitudes as relations to complex mental symbols, RTM explains both productivity and systematicity.

If, as Jerry Fodor (1975 , 1987 1994, 1998, 2008) has argued, there exists a "language of thought" consisting of mental symbols with syntactic and semantic properties, then possibly the semantic properties of mental symbols are the primary bearers of 'original' intentionality.

CTM attempts to reduce the intentionality of such states to the intentionality of the mental symbols they are relations to.

Some infer from this that reference could not possibly consist in correspondences between mental symbols and objects in the world.

This is the sort of strategy that Rupert invokes to keep mental symbols from meaning omnipresent, but non-specific causes such as the heart.