intermental
- adjective
- Specialized
- Intermental thought is joint, group, shared, or collective thought, as opposed to intramental, or individual or private thought.
- intermental unit
- intermental thought
- intermental functioning
Examples
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I would define these as groups that regularly employ intermental thinking.
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The team relied on intermental communication to solve the complex problem effectively together.
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The reliable mind reading on which any successful intermental unit is based is clearly under threat here.
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You may be feeling some doubt about the claim that intermental thought has been neglected.
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Why create a new entity of an intermental unit instead of simply talking about individuals working together?
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Others are very interested from the beginning in the concept of intermental thought but resist the concept of an intermental mind.
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If you draw the line more widely and accept the concept of an intermental cognitive system, then things are explained.
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If we look at the passage in the light of the discussion on intermental thought in the previous section, however, then the picture changes completely.
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Some of the intermental functioning relates to action.
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What are these examples of intermental functioning about, and what are the different types of judgments that are being made?
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Synonyms
About how people relate to and communicate with each other
Relating to communication and how people or things affect each other
Happening between different people
Happening between people
Antonyms
How Shared
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intermental comes from the parts inter- meaning 'between' and mental meaning 'mind', so it describes things that happen 'between minds', like shared thinking or communication.