A contorted tale of possessed minds that runs from the distant past to the near future, this mutant offspring of varsity farce and mystical adventure reads like a complicated dream you half remember before waking.
Note that for Berkeley there was no sense in which material objects themselves possessed minds.
HUMAN beings are not born with the knowledge that others possess minds with different contents.
Problem of other minds, in philosophy, the problem of justifying the commonsensical belief that others besides oneself possess minds and are capable of thinking or feeling somewhat as one does oneself.
Thales notes that magnets and, under certain circumstances, amber, can move themselves and concludes that they therefore possess minds.
Raine twice quotes Eliot's admiring observation that Henry James possessed "a mind so fine that no idea could violate it".
Pope Gregory the Great (reigned 590 604), who possessed the mind of both a statesman and a theologian, greatly magnified papal spiritual power and temporal involvement.
He was deeply in love with Laila and it was her thoughts alone that possessed his mind for all time.
I should have shut the hell up at that point, but I was completely possessed, my mind had short-circuited and I had no control over my faculties.
Here it is important to distinguish the plausible view that institutions are not reducible to the individual human persons who constitute them from the controversial view that institutions are themselves agents possessed of minds and a capacity to reason.
Death and human cruelty are laid bare by this masterpiece, as its scale and shadow daunt and possess the mind.
