Clarity and consistency in stating a thought or directive gives employees the ability to understand what is expected or needed from them.
I wake up in the morning, I'm sort of in a half dream state and a thought comes in.
Presumably, a person may have conscious access to one of her A-conscious mental states in virtue of having some other mental state (e.g., a thought or belief) directed to it.
As her father, Gartner and her youth coach Brad Levesque marveled at Appel's performance against Iowa State, they shared a thought of gratitude.
Mental content simply means the content of a mental state such as a thought, a belief, a desire, a fear, an intention, or a wish.
Both genius and madness, Huxley hinted, lay in these extreme states of mind — a thought not so different from those expressed by De Quincey, Coleridge, and Baudelaire in relation to their own ambiguous experiences with opium and hashish (and explored at length in Moreau's 1845 book "Hashish and Mental Illness").
In its campaign to defund NPR, TownHall.com asks: "If NPR is going to take millions of dollars from lefty billionaires, push a radical leftwing agenda and fire anyone who dares to state a politically incorrect thought, why are your tax dollars being used to fund it?" Those are fighting words.
Heads of state who rarely spare a thought for the environment have had to mug up on it to make their speeches and give their press conferences.
Rather, I managed her predictable denial by stating, "It was just a thought I had".
Instead of feeling the need to escape reality, think of it as a time to act on the natural desire to contemplate the nature and harmony of the things of the Spirit -- what some say is reality -- and freedom to experience the rewarding effect such a state of thought can have on one's health and attitude.
Still, it is important to remember that none of these interpretations claims that Locke's state of nature is only a thought experiment, in the way Kant and Rawls are normally thought to use the concept.
