Sentence examples for modifications of the mind from inspiring English sources

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).

There he argues that the same reasons that led the Cartesians to assert that sensory qualities such as colors, heat, cold and smells are not in the objects of the senses, but instead are modifications of the mind, in fact show that all qualities have this status.

The belief systems of early societies are thus characterized by "poetic metaphysics" which "seeks its proofs not in the external world but within the modifications of the mind of him who meditates it" ("Poetic Wisdom," §374, p.116), and "poetic logic," through which the creations of this metaphysics are signified.

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.

2. The reader is also to notice that there is a vast difference between saying that a certain quality, modification of the mind, or virtue, is not the spring by which government is actuated, and affirming that it is not to be found in that government.

More specifically, an "affection or passion" refer to "those Modifications or Actions of the mind consequent on the Apprehension of certain Objects or Events in which the Mind generally conceives Good or Evil" (Essay 15).

Modifications that decrease the power of a body to maintain its individual ratio are paralleled by modifications decreasing the mind's power of thought, and such passages are sadness (IIIp11s, Affect Def. III).

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