Mental property

A mental property or property of the mind is a property of one or the mind. The term is essentially used in philosophy of mind, without prejudice to the ontological status of mental properties. One can take for example the general properties such as the possibility of thinking or remembering, or more specific acts like "having a thought relative to Paris". The term is often used in the context of the mind-body problem. For physicalists (non-eliminationists), mental properties are a species of high level properties that can be understood in terms of subtle neurological activity. On the other hand, the partisans of the dualism of properties, claim that no such reductive explanation is possible. The proponents of eliminativism may reject the existence of mental properties or at least those corresponding to the categories of naive psychology such as thought or memory. Some philosophers seek to find a unifying feature for the generally recognized mental properties: a famous example is Franz Brentano's claim that all mental properties are characterized by intentionality. Translation SourceChange the code

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