A common view in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science is that the propositional attitudes of subjects are underwritten by an internal language of thought, comprised of mental representations.
As a Neoplatonic Idealist, he emphasized that thoughts comprise reality, while concrete "things" are mere appearances.
It was explained that if, for example, they had only experienced past (or future) related day dreams they should place a mark at the left (or right) extreme end of the scale, but if their off-task thoughts comprised both past and future events their mark should reflect the relative proportion of one to the other.
If language is the poet's medium, its suggestive powers must be used together with the poet's biological presence to make something pure, something more logical than deductive thought, something comprised of language without which we cannot seem to have lived.
The sage proposes to resolve the king's puzzlement by means of a thought experiment comprised of two hypothetical situations.
"The organized thinker never gives up anything he undertakes until he has exhausted every effort to finish it". For Carnegie, organized thought is comprised of ten dicta.
Much thought and consideration comprises the current interfaces which do indeed work to our expectations.
This 15-item self-report measure of recurrent, repetitive and self-focused thoughts about the loss comprises five subscales: thoughts about consequences and meaning of the loss; thoughts about social support; 'what-if' questions; 'why' questions and thoughts about feelings.
The latter, but not the former, comprises intentional thought that expresses my agency.
The habitus, it will be recalled, comprises our thoughts, perceptions and dispositions (Yang Yang 2014, p. 1525).
