Sentence examples for mental terms from inspiring English sources

This general approach to mental terms might be called irreferentialism.

The fact that mental terms seem to be applied in ensembles led a number of philosophers to think about technical ways of defining an entire set of terms together.

It is important to appreciate the many different ways in which a functionalist approach can be deployed, depending on the specific kind of functionalist account of the mind one thinks is constitutive of the meaning of mental terms.

This approach has persisted into the present day among philosophers such as Daniel Dennett, who think that the application of mental terms cannot depart very far from the behavioral basis on which they are learned, even though the terms might not be definable on that basis.

Critics have charged that we can never escape from using mental terms in the characterization of the meaning of mental terms.

Another stumbling block, in the case of analytical behaviorism, is the fact that the behavioral sentences that are intended to offer the behavioral paraphrases of mental terms almost always use mental terms themselves (see Chisholm 1957).

The term "desire" is a mental term.

Conditionals whose antecedents denote different structure types will typically have biconditionals as consequents whose mental term- constituents are co-referential but whose physical term- constituents denote different physical events.

Indeed, many functionalists claim to provide an analysis of mental properties in other, non-mental terms.

It includes only quantifiers that range over mental states, terms that denote stimulations and behavior, and terms that specify various causal relations among them.

Such a statement is free of any mental state terms.