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men|tal|is|tic
men|tal|is|tic «MEHN tuh LIHS tihk», adjective.
arising from or having to do with the mind or its processes as opposed to purely physical reality or biological processes: »

Bloomfield strove vigorously to avoid mentalistic terms…in the statement of his linguistic materials and believed that every truly “scientific statement is made in physical terms” (Charles C. Fries).


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