Sentence examples for minds problem from inspiring English sources

(Oddly, one kind of knowledge, of the souls or minds of other human beings, did not become a major topic of philosophical discussion until late in the modern period, and since then it has been much controverted; see other minds, problem of).

Finally, zombies raise epistemological difficulties: they reinstate the 'other minds' problem.

This creates a biological problem, beyond the Other Minds problem noted by early critics of the CR argument.

Three solutions to the other minds problem in its epistemological form seem to be the most popular.

To take a specific theory of mind: to argue that functionalism makes the other minds problem straightforwardly soluble is unacceptable.

The argument is that no theory of mind escapes the other minds problem and that all such theories have an equally difficult problem.

Friends, we have a hearts-and-minds problem with Iraq: we've given them our hearts, and we've lost our minds.

Despite the widely held conviction that in principle there is nothing in the world of fact that cannot be known through scientific investigation, the other-minds problem shows to the contrary that an entire domain of human experience is resistant to any sort of external inquiry.

There is also a growing out-of-sight-out-of-mind problem.

Things came to a head in 1996, when the writer received a letter from Australian psychologist Zoltan Torey, mentioning Torey's 1999 book, "The Crucible of Consciousness " (Oxford University Press), about the brain-mind problem.

Having in mind problem (6), we now consider a particular case of problem (7) for the rest of this section.