Technical terms are rarely occurrent in literature. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The fetus develops itself into an occurrent-belief-having thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists] Reference
Grace is God's unmerited love and favor, prevenient and occurrent. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler] Reference
As soon as he moves to the next topic, the occurrent belief ceases. From Wordnik.com. [Belief] Reference
Philosophers often distinguish dispositional from occurrent believing. From Wordnik.com. [Belief] Reference
Q. Moser defines the appropriate occurrent association relation as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Basing Relation] Reference
It is worth distinguishing genetic versions of the charge from occurrent ones. From Wordnik.com. [Envy] Reference
Apples are naturally occurrent and edible while sparkplugs are inedible artifacts. From Wordnik.com. [June 29th, 2009] Reference
The sleeping man also develops himself on waking into an occurrent-belief-having thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists] Reference
Where c and e are actual occurrent events, this truth condition can be simplified somewhat. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
An available or occurrent entity instantiates some property if that property is truly predicated of it. From Wordnik.com. [Existentialism] Reference
The association relation may also be non-occurrent and the belief still justified by the reason in question. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Basing Relation] Reference
Thus the incorrigibility mentioned before reduces to one's incorrigibility about one's occurrent experiences. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
You or some other external agent must make that pile of organic matter into an occurrent-belief-having thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists] Reference
Not only does occurrent clear and distinct perception resist doubt, it provides a kind of cognitive illumination. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
(B) Mental events of the second kind are occurrent propositional attitudes, e.g., (occurrent) beliefs and desires. From Wordnik.com. [Epiphenomenalism] Reference
'Illud necesse est impetrem, ne me quasi certum aliquem ordinem velitis sequi in contrahendis quae mihi occurrent.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Student's Companion to Latin Authors] Reference
So our definition of memory belief should not be limited to the exceedingly small class of occurrent memory beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
The occurrent belief comes and goes, depending on whether circumstances elicit it; the dispositional belief endures. From Wordnik.com. [Belief] Reference
Really, it seems to me that the mother's internal processes develop the fetus into an occurrent-belief-having thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists] Reference
Though the distinction between occurrent and dispositional belief is widely employed, it is rarely treated in detail. From Wordnik.com. [Belief] Reference
His terms determinate, determinable, occurrent, continuant and ostensive definition have entered the philosophical lexicon. From Wordnik.com. [Determinates vs. Determinables] Reference
People talking to themselves, or answering a teacher's question, are not even trying to produce activated or occurrent belief. From Wordnik.com. [Implicature] Reference
Neither you, nor your technology, are required to rearrange the fetus or the sleeping man into an occurrent-belief-having thing. From Wordnik.com. [Ultrasound and the Future of Confused Wannabe Paternalists] Reference
When I experience an occurrent pain, perception, or thought, the experience in question is given immediately and noninferentially. From Wordnik.com. [Phenomenological Approaches to Self-Consciousness] Reference
For example, if I believe that P and hold it in occurrent, working memory for one minute, say, shall we now count it as a memory belief?. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
One difficulty that experiential foundationalism faces is that it accounts only for the justificatory status of occurrent memory beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Another worry about this model is that it is relevant only to a small subset of our beliefs: occurrent judgments based on current evidence. From Wordnik.com. [Self-Knowledge] Reference
Who I am depends on what I make of my “properties”; they matter to me in a way that is impossible for merely available and occurrent entities. From Wordnik.com. [Existentialism] Reference
For an understanding to be about some thing, such as a cat, is for there to be an occurrent concept in the mind that is a natural likeness of a cat. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Abelard] Reference
Clause (c) requires that the belief not be occurrent all the time from the time it was formed until the time at which we are calling it a memory belief. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Perhaps the epistemologist will need to have something special to say about occurrent memory beliefs, but our main topic will be more general than that. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
One other important note here: I have required that it be the “same belief” that is at one time occurrent, then dispositional, and then occurent again. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Memory] Reference
Construed as speaking from and expressing an occurrent state the speaker is authoritative; construed as speaking from or referring to a dispositional state she is not. From Wordnik.com. [Gilbert Ryle] Reference
However, advocates of CTM often speak of it more generally as an account of beliefs and desires which are then cashed out in dispositional rather than occurrent terms. From Wordnik.com. [The Computational Theory of Mind] Reference
“Did not he swear that he would never repeat again to living mortal what I communicated to him? and therefore, in telling the occurrent to you, he hath made himself a liar.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fair Maid of Perth] Reference
Emotions, like beliefs and desires, can exist either as occurrent events (jealousy of a rival at a party) or as persisting modifications of the mind (a tendency to feel jealousy). From Wordnik.com. [Emotion] Reference
When there is no evil occurrent, then let us be vigorous and zealous in that which is good and get it forward. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther)] Reference
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