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Mental state
Introduction
- In psychology, mental state is an indication of a person’s mental health.
- In the philosophy of mind, a mental state is the kind of state or process that is unique to thinking and feeling beings. These can be representational states, see propositional attitude, or qualitative states, see qualia.