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mentalistic

adj

Etymology

From mentalist + -ic.

  1. derived from mentālis
  2. borrowed from mental
  3. suffixed as mentalist — “mental + ist”
  4. suffixed as mentalistic — “mentalist + ic”

Definitions

  1. Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings)…

    Characterized by appeal to mental states (such as beliefs, desires, intentions, feelings) in describing, explaining, or predicting behaviour or other phenomena; employing or pertaining to vocabulary or predicates about such states (often contrasted with behaviorist or purely physicalist approaches).

    • Mentalistic explanations allay curiosity and bring inquiry to a stop.
    • In this respect, our familiar mentalistic vocabulary (viz. our talk of thoughts, feelings, and expectations) would be similar in important respects to other theoretically embedded vocabularies.
    • Predicate dualism is the theory that psychological or mentalistic predicates are essential for a full description of the world and are not reducible to physicalistic predicates.

  2. Of or relating to mentalism or mentalists.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA