Assertion: mind | /r/HasProperty | distinct
Facets:
value: fundamentally
type: DEGREE
value: according to descartes
type: OTHER
value: ontologically
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Still other dualists hold not that mind and body are distinct ontologically, but our mentalistic vocabulary cannot be reduced to a physicalistic vocabulary.
text: René Descartes, in his epoch-making Meditations on First Philosophy (1641), had argued that minds and bodies are two distinct kinds of being or substance with two distinct kinds of attributes or modes: bodies are characterized by spatiotemporal physical properties, while minds are characterized by properties of thinking (including seeing, feeling, etc.).
text: According to Descartes, minds and bodies are distinct kinds of "substance".
text: Substance dualism asserts that mind and matter are fundamentally distinct kinds of foundations.
text: Thus, by Leibniz’s Law, if minds are capable of intentional states and bodies are not, minds and bodies must be distinct.
text: Many philosophical and religious traditions believe that mind and body are distinct; that the experience of mind is non-physical and non-local.
text: Mind–body dualism is the view in the philosophy of mind that mental phenomena are non-physical, or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.
text: There are the dualist solutions (mind and body are distinct, although then the problem of how they interact becomes even more embarrassing, and is so far unresolved in any satisfactory manner); the idealist solution (there is only mind, and matter is merely a manifestation of mind, although how mind could have created the beautiful subtlety of the unification of the nuclear, electromagnetic and radioactive forces of nature, with a proposed extension (yet unproven) to fusion of those forces with the force of gravity through superstrings, seems impossible to comprehend); a third position is that there is only body or matter, so this is a reductive physicalist approach (
text: First, he can “clearly and distinctly understand” that mind and body are distinct; that is, he can imagine that mind and body are distinct.
text: First, he can “clearly and distinctly understand” that mind and body are distinct; that is, he can imagine that mind and body are distinct.