mental faculty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandfaculty
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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faculty
noun
uk/ˈfæk.əl.ti/us/ˈfæk.əl.t̬i/
a natural ability to hear, see, think, ...
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(Definition ofmentalandfacultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It examines the implications of findings from these domains for our understanding of the limits of thementalfacultyto acquire language.
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The first is loss of physical ormentalfaculty, whatever that may mean.
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As far as possible disability of every kind should be equated, whether it takes the form of a loss of physical ormentalfaculty, including deafness, dumbness and blindness.
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I do not agree that the assessment of disability due to loss ofmentalfacultyis so deficient or arbitrary a system that we need to consider alternatives.
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Microcephaly patients are characterized by a small, tapering cranium and often have impairedmentalfaculty.
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At the beginning of each character's section is an explanatory table, providing us with information on the character, including age, condition andmentalfaculty.
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The intuitionists believed that aesthetic experience was disclosed by a singlementalfacultyof some kind.
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Biology would help explain mental functions such as feeling and thinking, it would not help us to understand differences ofmentalfacultyin different races and stages of human development.
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This version of epistemic naturalism postulates innately endowed mental faculties, and takes cognitive states to be aspects of the natural world.
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Language in particular seems to be matched to specific mental faculties.
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We are by definition structurally implicated in this judgement produced by the combination of our mental faculties, desires and past experiences.
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This woman had all her mental faculties and could think clearly and logically.
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Wallace's firm belief in spiritualism contributed to his opinion that natural selection cannot account for human moral and mental faculties.
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Cowan's claim that apart from his attentional control system "no other mental faculties are capacity limited" is also puzzling.
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Alfred can only understand abstract mental faculties because he has actually experienced vision and anchored ships; he cannot understand epistemology in purely theoretical terms.
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Different mental faculties were thought to be embodied in, and formative of, the structure of the skull.
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Autonomous individuals are individuals who have the opportunities and mental faculties to decide what the happiest possible life must be like according to their own values.
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Gifford (1988) has stated that it is unlikely an individual's mental faculties are improved through what he calls 'the power of music'.
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The congeries of concepts used by early modern writers to chart the kinds and relationships of mental faculties were still more permeable to the influences of morals and character.
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Grodzinsky's findings do, however, provide a challenge of a different sort, namely, that of explaining why and how two separate mental faculties happen to share important design features.
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