-
1 know one's own mind
( usually in negative) to know what one really thinks, wants to do etc:يَعْرِفُ ماذا يُريد بالضَّبْطShe doesn't know her own mind yet about abortion.
-
2 Mind
It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)[Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive AnalysesRecent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind
-
3 know
مَيَّزَ \ discern: to see or understand (usu. with some difficulty): I could hardly discern the tree in the dark. discriminate: to make or see a difference (between two things). distinguish: to see the difference (between things): In the darkness I could not distinguish your car from the others. draw the line: to fix a limit to what can be allowed: I don’t mind your keeping rabbits, but I draw the line at rats (I cannot allow them). know: to be able to tell one from another; recognize: I know your son by sight, but we’ve never met. I know all the flowers in this garden. pick out: to recognize and separate (with one’s eyes or hands): Can you pick out your child in this school photograph?. recognize: to know again (sb. or sth. that one has seen before); know (from a picture or description): I recognized him at once by the mark on his face, know again (sth. that one has heard or smelt or felt, etc,. before) Do you recognize that music?. tell: (with can) to know; recognize: Can you tell a queen bee when you see one? Can you tell the difference between these two brothers? Can you tell one from the other? Can you tell them apart? (Can you see the difference between them?). \ See Also تبين (تَبَيَّنَ)، تَعَرَّفَ على -
4 Mind-body Problem
From this I knew that I was a substance the whole essence or nature of which is to think, and that for its existence there is no need of any place, nor does it depend on any material thing; so that this "me," that is to say, the soul by which I am what I am, is entirely distinct from body, and is even more easy to know than is the latter; and even if body were not, the soul would not cease to be what it is. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 101)still remains to be explained how that union and apparent intermingling [of mind and body]... can be found in you, if you are incorporeal, unextended and indivisible.... How, at least, can you be united with the brain, or some minute part in it, which (as has been said) must yet have some magnitude or extension, however small it be? If you are wholly without parts how can you mix or appear to mix with its minute subdivisions? For there is no mixture unless each of the things to be mixed has parts that can mix with one another. (Gassendi, 1970, p. 201)here are... certain things which we experience in ourselves and which should be attributed neither to the mind nor body alone, but to the close and intimate union that exists between the body and the mind.... Such are the appetites of hunger, thirst, etc., and also the emotions or passions of the mind which do not subsist in mind or thought alone... and finally all the sensations. (Descartes, 1970b, p. 238)With any other sort of mind, absolute Intelligence, Mind unattached to a particular body, or Mind not subject to the course of time, the psychologist as such has nothing to do. (James, 1890, p. 183)[The] intention is to furnish a psychology that shall be a natural science: that is to represent psychical processes as quantitatively determinate states of specifiable material particles, thus making these processes perspicuous and free from contradiction. (Freud, 1966, p. 295)The thesis is that the mental is nomologically irreducible: there may be true general statements relating the mental and the physical, statements that have the logical form of a law; but they are not lawlike (in a strong sense to be described). If by absurdly remote chance we were to stumble on a non-stochastic true psychophysical generalization, we would have no reason to believe it more than roughly true. (Davidson, 1970, p. 90)We can divide those who uphold the doctrine that men are machines, or a similar doctrine, into two categories: those who deny the existence of mental events, or personal experiences, or of consciousness;... and those who admit the existence of mental events, but assert that they are "epiphenomena"-that everything can be explained without them, since the material world is causally closed. (Popper & Eccles, 1977, p. 5)Mind affects brain and brain affects mind. That is the message, and by accepting it you commit yourself to a special view of the world. It is a view that shows the limits of the genetic imperative on what we turn out to be, both intellectually and emotionally. It decrees that, while the secrets of our genes express themselves with force throughout our lives, the effect of that information on our bodies can be influenced by our psychological history and beliefs about the world. And, just as important, the other side of the same coin argues that what we construct in our minds as objective reality may simply be our interpretations of certain bodily states dictated by our genes and expressed through our physical brains and body. Put differently, various attributes of mind that seem to have a purely psychological origin are frequently a product of the brain's interpreter rationalizing genetically driven body states. Make no mistake about it: this two-sided view of mind-brain interactions, if adopted, has implications for the management of one's personal life. (Gazzaniga, 1988, p. 229)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Mind-body Problem
-
5 know
دَرَى \ know: (of facts) to have learnt; have in the mind: He didn’t know my name. He knew who I was. Do you know much English? Do you know how to drive? Did you know about his death?. \ See Also علم (عَلِمَ) \ عَرَفَ (شَخصًا ما) \ know: (of people) to have met sb. and talked to him: We know our neighbours well, of course, be able to tell one from another; recognize I know your son by sight, but we’ve never met. I know all the flowers in this garden. -
6 mind
-
7 знае што сака
know one's mind -
8 idea sf
[i'dɛa]1) (gen) ideanon ne ho la minima o più pallida idea — I haven't the faintest o foggiest idea
un'idea geniale — a brilliant o clever idea
chissà che idea gli è saltata in mente adesso? — who knows what idea he may have got into his head now?
ho idea che... — I have an idea o a feeling that...
nemmeno neanche o neppure per idea! — not on your life!, certainly not!, no way!
pensi di andarci? — neanche per idea! — are you thinking of going? — no way!
dare l'idea di — to seem, look like
2) (opinione) opinion, viewessere dell'idea (che) — to be of the opinion (that), think (that)
3)avere una mezza idea di fare qc — to have half a mind to do sth4) (ideale) ideall'idea del bello/della pace — the ideal of beauty/of peace
-
9 idea
sf [i'dɛa]1) (gen) ideanon ne ho la minima o più pallida idea — I haven't the faintest o foggiest idea
un'idea geniale — a brilliant o clever idea
chissà che idea gli è saltata in mente adesso? — who knows what idea he may have got into his head now?
ho idea che... — I have an idea o a feeling that...
nemmeno neanche o neppure per idea! — not on your life!, certainly not!, no way!
pensi di andarci? — neanche per idea! — are you thinking of going? — no way!
dare l'idea di — to seem, look like
2) (opinione) opinion, viewessere dell'idea (che) — to be of the opinion (that), think (that)
3)avere una mezza idea di fare qc — to have half a mind to do sth4) (ideale) ideall'idea del bello/della pace — the ideal of beauty/of peace
-
10 сказать пару тёплых слов
сказать пару тёплых (ласковых) слов ( кому), тж. сказать пару ласковых ( кому)разг., шутл.cf. give smb. a piece of one's mind; let smb. know one's mind; give smb. a nice talking-to- Видел жеребца? - Кондрат закурил, несколько раз глубоко затянулся. - Приеду, пойду к той комиссии... Я им скажу пару ласковых. (В. Шукшин, И разыгрались же кони в поле) — 'Some stallion, eh?' Kondrat lighted a cigarette and inhaled deeply. 'When I get back I'll go and see that commission... I'll give them a piece of my mind.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > сказать пару тёплых слов
-
11 a spune cuiva ceea ce gândeşte / părerea sa
to tell smb. one's mindto let smb. know one's mind.Română-Engleză dicționar expresii > a spune cuiva ceea ce gândeşte / părerea sa
-
12 ཐུགས་ཤེས་པ་
[thugs shes pa]believe, know one's mind -
13 ཡིད་ཤེས་པ་
[yid shes pa]believe, know one's mind, knowledge of the soul -
14 зная
know; ( съзнавам) be aware of, realize(мога, умея) can, be able; know(познавам) be acquainted/familiar with, know(помня) remember, recollectзная предварително foreknow* * *зна̀я,гл., мин. св. деят. прич. зна̀ял 1. know; ( съзнавам) be aware of, realize; ако искаш да знаеш if you ask me; доколкото \зная as far as I know, to the best of my knowledge, книж. for aught I know; един бог знае dear/God/goodness knows; знае се, че той е богат he is known to be rich; \зная какво искам I know what I’m about; I know my own mind; \зная мярка know when to stop; \зная на пръсти have at o.’s fingers’ ends; не знаех това that’s news to me; не \зная как се прави I don’t know the trick of it; не \зная покой know/have no rest; откъде да \зная? how can I tell? how should I know? сега \зная, че не е така now I know better; съвсем не \зная какво да правя be at o.’s wits’ end; ти все много знаеш you think you know everything, you think yourself very clever; той знае колко струва he knows his value, he knows how much he is worth; той не знае какво е болест he has never known illness; човек никога не знае какво ще се случи you never can tell/there’s no telling what will happen;3. ( познавам) be acquainted/familiar with, know; разг. know the ropes;4. ( помня) remember, recollect; • де да го знаеш него one can’t be sure about him; знаех си аз I knew it (would be so); знаеш ли? guess what? какво знаете вие ( лесно ви е) you have an easy time of it; не обичам музиката кой знае колко I’m not so very fond of music, I don’t particularly care for music; не ща/искам да \зная, не ща и да \зная I don’t care; I have no regard (for); прави каквото знаеш do as you see fit; той не е кой знае какъв юрист he is not much of a lawyer, he is no great lawyer, he’s nothing extraordinary as a lawyer; той си знае все своето you can’t change him; he’s always harping on the same string.* * *know; to be aware -
15 saber dónde aprieta el zapato
• know one's own mind• know where the shoe pinchesDiccionario Técnico Español-Inglés > saber dónde aprieta el zapato
-
16 gøre sig sine egne tanker
-
17 ikke rigtigt selv vide
-
18 co chtít
-
19 òekkja hug sinn, vita hvaî manni finnst/langar
Íslensk-ensk orðabók > òekkja hug sinn, vita hvaî manni finnst/langar
-
20 vedieť, čo chce
См. также в других словарях:
know one's own mind — 1. To be sure of one s intentions and opinions 2. To be self assured • • • Main Entry: ↑mind * * * be decisive and certain … Useful english dictionary
know one's own mind — ► know one s own mind be decisive and certain. Main Entry: ↑know … English terms dictionary
know one's own mind — {v. phr.} To no( hesitate or vacillate; be definite in one s ideas or plans. * /It is impossible to do business with Fred, because he doesn t know his own mind./ … Dictionary of American idioms
know one's own mind — {v. phr.} To no( hesitate or vacillate; be definite in one s ideas or plans. * /It is impossible to do business with Fred, because he doesn t know his own mind./ … Dictionary of American idioms
know\ one's\ own\ mind — v. phr. To no( hesitate or vacillate; be definite in one s ideas or plans. It is impossible to do business with Fred, because he doesn t know his own mind … Словарь американских идиом
To lose one's mind — Mind Mind (m[imac]nd), n. [AS. mynd, gemynd; akin to OHG. minna memory, love, G. minne love, Dan. minde mind, memory, remembrance, consent, vote, Sw. minne memory, Icel. minni, Goth. gamunds, L. mens, mentis, mind, Gr. me nos, Skr. manas mind,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
have a one-track mind — if someone has a one track mind, they seem to talk and think about one particular subject all the time, especially sex. I bet I know what you two were doing last night. Oh, shut up, Sean, you ve got a one track mind. You ve got to have a one… … New idioms dictionary
To make up one's mind — Mind Mind (m[imac]nd), n. [AS. mynd, gemynd; akin to OHG. minna memory, love, G. minne love, Dan. minde mind, memory, remembrance, consent, vote, Sw. minne memory, Icel. minni, Goth. gamunds, L. mens, mentis, mind, Gr. me nos, Skr. manas mind,… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
know one's own mind — be sure of one s opinions, know what one desires … English contemporary dictionary
know one's own mind — be decisive and certain. → know … English new terms dictionary
not to know one's own mind — (from Idioms in Speech) to be full of doubt hesitation etc. (to be in two minds) Then you ought to have known your own mind before entering into such a very serious engagement. (B. Shaw) I don t hold with a man marrying till he knows his own mind … Idioms and examples