Nearly all the warm-blooded animals so far share with mankind the same physiological nature as to give forth a variety of vocal sounds under as great a variety of mental states.
We propose to give you a little mental drill work, toward the end that you may be able more readily to distinguish the "I" from the mind, or mental states.
Mental states have a subtle way of impressing themselves upon us, and the student who will take the trouble to closely observe those with whom he comes in contact will receive a liberal education along these lines.
Mental states manifest in outer form in handshakes as in many other physical actions and appearances.
The philosophy underlying the science of Physiognomy has been stated at length in the first several chapters of this book, the essence of which is that mental states manifest in outward form.
It now remains to be seen how Adwaitees account for the origin of mental states in a particular individual.
As is already indicated, the Aryan psychologists have traced this current of mental states to its source--the eternal Chinmatra existing everywhere.
On the contrary, the heart is so readily affected by mental states that, taking effect for cause, the old popular, and even scientific idea with regard to it, was that it was the organ of the emotions.
It is possible to cause a hyperemia in the skin by thinking about certain portions of it, and the genital organs are particularly prone to be influenced by mental states.
An investigation of suicide records shows, as we have said, that it is not nearly so often bodily or material hardships that lead men to it as mental states.
For example, it might be found that introspection, or the immediate inspection of our own feelings or mental states, does not supply the conditions necessary to the production of such error.
In order thus to verify the utterances of memory, we must look beyond our own internal mental states to some external facts.
Mental states are contagious, and enthusiasm is one of the most active of mental states.
And, moreover, there is a subtle reaction of one's outward manifestations upon one's mental states.
Enthusiasm comes nearer to being "soul-power" than any other outward expression of mental states.
Thus psychology becomes a study of mental states, or states of consciousness; and it is, in fact, frequently described as the science of consciousness.
But the real center of the theory lies indeed in the fact which we discussed; it lies in the fact that we cannot have any explanation of mental states as such at all, if we do not link them with physical processes.
Both, of course, involve the same kind of mental states.
This does not at all exclude other types of these mental states and entirely different mental states.
Images of all kinds have been discussed as if they stood out clearly differentiated from all other types of mental states.
I refer to his fundamental classification of mental statesand to his doctrine of the relation of love to joy, and of hate to sadness.
The fundamental classification of mental states in Descartes 47 22.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mental states" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
