He has transformed the sheet of paper into a spiritual agency;--nay, the mere memory of him persists as a source of energy in other minds.
It now seems to me that such a continuous transition may well exist, and that there is no absolute gulf between the supernormal perception of ideas as existing in other minds, and the supernormal perception of what we know as matter.
We shall find that there is a perception of concealed material objects or of distant scenes and also a perception of a communion with the thoughts and emotions of other minds.
We do not transfer ideas to other minds,--we only rouse them to develop their own ideas.
In both I transcend the bounds of experience, as truly as in my knowledge of other minds.
Everyone likes to remember many a joy and even sorrow of his youth which was linked with family occasions; but to name a man's more private memories, attached to special surroundings, would awaken no response in other minds.
It is his business to produce evidence, not to try to force his own conviction on other minds, and he should most scrupulously avoid phrases which partake more of the character of threats than arguments.
Our evidence, with respect to the existence of other minds, is founded upon a very complicated relation of ideas, which it is foreign to the purpose of this treatise to anatomize.
The frequent recurrence of the poetical power, it is obvious to suppose, may produce in the mind a habit of order and harmony correlative with its own nature and its effects upon other minds.
We are conscious also of the existence of other minds; but not intuitively.
How do we know that our inference to the existence of other minds is a justifiable inference?
Moreover, we know that a knowledge of the outer world and of other mindsis built up gradually, and we never think of an infant as knowing what a man knows, much as we are inclined to overrate the minds of infants.
To the truism, that we can only judge of other minds by a knowledge of our own, we may add its converse as especially true.
He who sees most clearly and enlightens other minds [10] most readily, keeps his own lamp trimmed and burning.
In this Christian warfare the student or practitioner has to master those elements of evil too common to other minds.
Other minds have an intuition so much the more perfect as they are more elevated in the order to which they belong; so that cognition by conceptions indicates an imperfection of intelligence.
For such purposes of mere aesthetic nourishment Goethe always milked other minds,--if minds those ruminators and digesters of antiquity into asses' milk may be called.
It seemed that this enthusiast was just as cautious, just as much alive to judgments in other minds as if he had been that antipode of all enthusiasm called "a man of the world.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other minds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
