He even spoke of ideas as "spreading" out through the same continuum in which mind is extended.
"And it's a very important medium through which the minds of the people can be shaped".
The fame, therefore, of this fountain, was acquired, not by the effeminacy which it is reputed to impart, but by its being the means through which the minds of the barbarians were civilized.
In particular, it must give some account of the temporal dynamics of consciousness and the ways in which its self-transforming flow reflects both its intentional coherence and the semantic self-understanding embodied in the organized controls through which conscious minds continually remake themselves as autopoietic systems engaged with their worlds.
Known for her improvisational acting technique, Action Theater, Ms. Zaporah sees the body and the mind as inseparable disciplines in which, as her biography states, the body is "the doorway through which the mind becomes present".
Are these states, James ends the chapter by asking, "windows through which the mind looks out upon a more extensive and inclusive world" (V, 428).
In his middle commentary on the De interpretatione (pp. 53 56) Burley also speaks of mental universals, i.e., the concepts through which our mind relates general names to their significata.
The most important among universal signs are mental universals, which are both the acts of intellection through which our mind grasps the nature of universal forms and the concepts through which it connects general names with the things to which they refer (ibid., pp. 68-69).
Kant argued that time, space, causation, and substance among other features of reality are innate conceptual categories through which the human mind imposes order on experience.
Philo of Alexandria, a 1st-century-ad Jewish philosopher, taught that the logos was the intermediary between God and the cosmos, being both the agent of creation and the agent through which the human mind can apprehend and comprehend God.
Elisabeth rejects Descartes's appeal to the Scholastic conception of heaviness as a model through which to explain mind-body interaction, on the grounds that, as Descartes himself previously argued, it is unintelligible and inconsistent with a mechanist conception of nature.
