Imposing Mind Onto World

We impose our minds onto the world. We create artifacts that reflect our intentions to make them. We make social constructions that mirror our collective agreements. We impress value by our valuing. Discomfort with this power to mold the world in our image has led many to reject such mirroring of mind by world, but this would do away with much of the human realm. Therefore, I offer a realist account of imposition by way of enfolding it within a more general account of how intentional states can produce new intentionally dependent phenomena. Truth arises only due to beliefs determining that certain facts make them true. Desires forge satisfaction by determining that certain occurrences satisfy them. Impositions of mind are made in the same basic way. They are produced due to imposing attitudes determining how they are produced. We should be no more skeptical of imposition than of truth and satisfaction.