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  • adjective Not mental (concerned with the mind).

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non- +‎ mental

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Examples

  • The authors are quite correct in highlighting our uncertainty about key issues: "We remain radically in the dark about how consciousness might emerge as something physical from nonconscious, nonmental parts" p.76.

    Naturalism James F. McGrath 2008

  • The authors are quite correct in highlighting our uncertainty about key issues: "We remain radically in the dark about how consciousness might emerge as something physical from nonconscious, nonmental parts" p.76.

    Archive 2008-10-01 James F. McGrath 2008

  • While textbook orthodoxy now classifies sense-data as mental entities, sense-datum theorists typically took them, and the properties they exemplify, to be nonmental.

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

  • In the following passage he emphasizes the nonmental nature of the “objects of sense”:

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

  • And neutral monism assumes that there are genuinely physical (i.e., nonmental) phenomena that need reducing, panpsychism does not.

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

  • That was the nature of men, and it was intensified by her daughter's nonmental assets.

    Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

  • In the theistic view, the natural world may be con - ceived as the order of interacting nonmental entities

    CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

  • But the religious and moral relation of men to each other and to God is not significantly affected by viewing the natural world as mental or nonmental.

    CREATION IN RELIGION PETER A. BERTOCCI 1968

  • “sensations” he is left with upon giving up on the subject and its mental acts inherit this nonmental, neutral character of his earlier objects of sense.

    Neutral Monism Stubenberg, Leopold 2005

  • But such invariance only exemplifies objectivity in a case like this, not when the invariance is with respect to nonmental facts ” for example, invariance of shape under change of position.

    Relativity & Objectivity McGinn, Colin 2002

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