id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-847 Mental state - Wikipedia .html text/html 821 111 59 It has been suggested that Collective mental state be merged into this article. In cognitive psychology and the philosophy of mind, a mental state is a kind of hypothetical state that corresponds to thinking and feeling, and consists of a conglomeration of mental representations and propositional attitudes. Several theories in philosophy and psychology try to determine the relationship between the agent's mental state and a proposition.[1][2][3][4] Factive attitudes include those mental states that are attached to the truth of the proposition—i.e. the proposition entails truth. Some factive mental states include "perceiving that", "remembering that", "regretting that", and (more controversially) "knowing that".[6] Non-factive attitudes do not entail the truth of the propositions to which they are attached. That is, one can be in one of these mental states and the proposition can be false. Propositional attitude, a relational mental state connecting a person to a proposition Edit links ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-847.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-847.txt