mental phenomenon
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandphenomenon
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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phenomenon
noun[C]
uk/fəˈnɒm.ɪ.nən/us/fəˈnɑː.mə.nɑːn/
something that exists and can be seen, felt, tasted, etc., especially something unusual ...
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Consequently, the cause of hallucinations is attributed to a disorder of a hypothetical mechanism that controls or "monitors" the corresponding self-generatedmentalphenomenon.
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This unease is not just amentalphenomenon, but is based in a physically experienced sense of difference.
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The dream was not the onlymentalphenomenonto be displayed using cinematic trickery during this era.
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That too appears to have subcortical origins, yet it seems to us to be amentalphenomenon.
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Such studies are typically dominated by concerns and methods of cognitive psychology and often hold a limited view of awareness as only an individual andmentalphenomenon.
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There is a widespread tendency among researchers of consciousness to address the semantics of the term "consciousness" (and its cognates) when investigating thementalphenomenon, consciousness.
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Everymentalphenomenon, every psychological act, has a content, is directed at an object (the "intentional object").
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The world appears, in the way that it appears, as amentalphenomenon.
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He defined culture as amentalphenomenon, consisting of the contents of minds, not of material objects or observable behavior.
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He was dismayed at the number of people who thought they had attained perfect enlightenment by experiencing somementalphenomenonduring their practice.
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Everymentalphenomenon, every psychological act has content, is directed at an object (the "intentional object").
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So, for example, "mind-body supervenience" holds that everymentalphenomenonmust be grounded in, or anchored to, some underlying physical base (presumably a neural state).
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I do not see a strong case for supposing that the boundary separating accessible and inaccessible mental phenomena falls neatly between representation and processing.
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Thus, mental phenomena may be embodied in the neural dynamics of action.
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In any context, neural explanation of mental phenomena has been a project that is impossible to avoid and impossible to accomplish.
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These three mental phenomena are independent of one another, and inherent variability is simply one point where they happen to intersect.
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The capacity to represent mental phenomena must be in close relationship with the ability to produce the specific grammatical structures that allow reference to mental phenomena.
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I go further, however, in arguing that this new science could not have developed in the absence of representations, provided by writers, of mental phenomena that cannot be observed empirically.
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In other words, that we can and often do talk about "intentions," "demonic possession," and other such occult mental phenomena does not constitute evidence of their existence.
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Furthermore, it is not just that children learn culturally specific words for mental phenomena such as seeing; rather, these words are added to and become part of a practice.
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