Mental States

Famous quotes containing the words mental states, mental and/or states:

“... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it’s the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and it’s what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.”
—Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)

“Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
—Constitution of the World Health Organization.

“My opinion is that the Northern states will manage somehow to muddle through.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)