Sentence examples for modification of mind from inspiring English sources

In developing his own position, Arnauld appealed to Descartes' distinction in "Meditation III" between the formal reality of an idea as a perceptual modification of mind and its objective reality as something that represents an object.

If this idea were a modification of my mind, my mind itself would have to be infinite, which it clearly is not.

Malebranche claims that the idea of the infinite cannot be a modification of our mind, for our mind is finite; it can only reside in God, the sole infinite being.

In this sense, the idea is simply an actual or existent mode or modification of the mind, and insofar as it is, its formal reality is derived from the formal reality of the mind.

One point he wanted to make is that the idea exists in God while the sensations are only modifications of our mind.

He took sensations to be modifications of the mind's being.

And unlike Reid, he insisted that colours are unequivocally both modifications of the mind's being and literally extended.

are not in bodies — which again are to be conceived in terms of geometrical extension alone — but are modifications of the mind.

Emotions, like beliefs and desires, can exist either as occurrent events (jealousy of a rival at a party) or as persisting modifications of the mind (a tendency to feel jealousy).

Indeed, although sensations and other such modifications of the mind are typically strong and lively in their affects, they are 'confused modalities…full of darkness' (Dialogue 3, OC 12 65; JS 33).

Second, Malebranche took from Descartes the view that colors and the other so-called 'secondary qualities' are not qualities of bodies but sensations or modifications of the mind (whether Descartes actually held this position himself is controversial).