Surely because it is like our idea, or mental image of the person, and because our idea is like the man himself.
Defn: Appearance or image; a phantasm; a spectral image; also, a mental image or idea.
To form in the mind a notion or idea of; to form a mental image of; to conceive; to produce by the imagination.
A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.
A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.
But nature exists in us in actuality without a mental image, whereas the soul, which is superior to nature, possesses a mental image besides.
By visualizing is meant the formation of a mental image of the thing in the imagination.
A sensation or complex of sensations recalled by a substitute stimulus is called a "mental image" or a "memory image".
It is not necessary to suppose that the birds have any plan or mental image of what the nest is to be like; probably not.
The perceived fact may call up a mental image, or a recognition of some further fact less directly signified by the noise; these would be reactions of still higher order.
Before a thing can be a Mental Image, there must be a Mind to hold that Mental Image, and a BEING to possess that Mind.
Your minds reel when you try to form a mental image of That which has had no cause, because you have had no experience in the sense world of such a thing, and there fail to form the image.
Kant unquestionably in this passage treats as a mental image related to a conception what really is, and what on his own theory ought to have been, an individual object related to a conception, i.
In other words, he takes a mental image of an individual for the individual itself.
What shall we say then--that a mental image is a situational item only when the territory is occupied?
An idea or mental image is a mental conception of anything, as for instance our conception which we express by the terms, man, animal, house, etc.
Such a "thing" is what we think of when we think of a mental image.
On the physical side, an illusion of sense, like a just perception, is the result of a fusion of the nervous process answering to a sensation with a nervous process answering to a mental image.
A sensation clearly resembles a mental image in quality.
The truly startling part of these illusions is, that the direct result of sensory stimulation appears to be actually displaced by a mental image.
To Abel, driving home some hours later in his gig, the old clergyman was present less as a mental image, than as a vague yet impelling influence for good.
For a minute she thought very hard, as though patiently striving to invoke a mental image.
In proportion as a mental image is referred to more objects, so is it more frequent, or more often vivid, and occupies the mind more.
A mental image is more often vivid, in proportion as it is associated with a greater number of other images.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental image" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
