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Iclearwater Posted 8 years ago
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The mind was conceived of as an array of properties or characteristics

For a long time-in a certain sense since Aristotle-the mind was conceived of as an array of properties or characteristics with which an individual was endowed to a greater or lesser degree, very much as he might have a slender or heavy body, red or fair hair, etc.

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Hello,

Does thte sentence above mean as below:

Since Asritotle's time, everyone, no matter how he looked like, has a different mind which consisited of different characteristics.

If no, would you please paraphrase it?

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No. Since Aristotle's time, people have thought of the mind as a set of mental characteristics that a person is born with, in the same way as a person is born with a set of physical characteristics: thin or fat, with red hair or fair hair, etc.

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  • Since Aristotle's time, people have thought of the mind as a set of mental characteristics that a person is born with, in the same way as a person is born with a set of physical characteristics: thin or fat, with red hair or fair hair, etc.
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Since Aristotle's time, people have thought of the mind as a set of mental characteristics that a person is born with, in the same way as a person is born with a set of physical characteristics: thin or fat, with red hair or fair hair, etc.

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