Legal Concepts as Mental Representations

Legal concepts for nurses

Nursing is an activity based on skilled, emotional, ethical and lawful practice and any minor negligence bad or unknowledgeable practice may cause the patient and nurse physical and lawful problems. The best way to prevent problems is that nurses be aware of professional standards of care and related rules. In attention to the importance of knowing the concepts of law, it is suggested that such...

Mental Representations of Lyrical Prose

The article analyzes mental representations of Russian lyrical prose texts. The texts demonstrate collective memory engrams that are defined by cultural and historical legacy of the nation and authors’ creative world perception. In architectonics of a lyrical prose text, sense perception reveals itself in accumulated underlying meanings and wisdom conveyed by expressive means. The author’s inte...

The Ontology of Concepts — Abstract Objects or Mental Representations ?

objects as well, but they are still to be distinguished from senses in that functions are individuated extensionally: if function f and function g have the same extension, then f = g. 9 An anonymous referee has suggested that a different way to treat concepts as abstract objects would be to adopt Wayne Davis’s view that concepts are mental representation types (Davis 2003, 2005). Although types...

Concepts as Representations for Essences: Evidence from Use of Generics

This paper compares descriptivist approaches for concept acquisition with essentialist approaches by exploring the conditions under which people use generic sentences (sentences such as ‘Apples are round’ which contrast with sentences about particulars like ‘All/most of the apples are round’). It fleshes out the essentialist approach in terms of the Baptism theory of concept acquisition (Oved, ...

Legal justice and mental health.