mind
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- description
- The faculty of consciousness and thought, often used interchangeably with memory in common speech, but distinct in its direct experience of affections. It is the seat of understanding and discerning.
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- affections, joy, sorrow
- function
- consciousness, thought, understanding
- relationship_to_memory
- contains memory, but distinct in how it processes affections
Relationships
- appropriatedCogitation
- description
- The mind has specifically adopted the term 'cogitation' to refer to the act of 'recollecting' or bringing thoughts together within itself, rather than just any form of collecting.
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- But the mind hath appropriated to itself this word (cogitation), so that, not what is "collected" any how, but what is "recollected," i.e., brought together, in the mind, is properly said to be cogitated, or thought upon
- experiencesAffections of the Mind
- description
- The mind is the faculty that actively feels and experiences emotional states, contrasting with memory which stores them without re-experiencing.
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- not in the same manner that my mind itself contains them, when it feels them
- perceives_and_commitsNotions of Things
- description
- The mind perceives abstract notions of things that were not received through bodily senses and then commits these understandings to memory.
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- but notions of the very things themselves which we never received by any avenue of the body, but which the mind itself perceiving by the experience of its own passions, committed to the memory
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- 2026-03-02T21:55:21.445Z
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