extramental
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Apart from outside of, or beyond the mind; independent of mental apprehension.
Examples
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If we take anti-realism to be the view that (a) nothing in extramental reality corresponds to our relational concepts and (b) nothing is related independently of the activity of the mind, it is not hard to see why most medieval philosophers would reject it.
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So it is not surprising that the dominant form of reporting is in the form of a relation between the perceiver and the perceived where the latter are extramental objects or conditions of one's environment.
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This is for good reason: perception essentially is an activity whereby one gathers information about one's (extramental) environment in real time (including one's internal bodily environment of course).
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The question: how can the mind know extramental objects? has no meaning when knowledge is conceived as the vital union of the known object with the knowing mind.
Note
The word 'extramental' comes from Latin roots meaning "outside" and "mind".
