mental object vs goal

goal vs mental object

mental object and goal both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
mental object	Yes	No	No	No
goal	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, goal is a hyponym of mental object; that is, goal is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than mental object:

mental object: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
goal: the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it

Other hyponyms of mental object include tradition, object, food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment, noumenon, thing-in-itself, universe, universe of discourse, issue, matter, subject, topic, issue, idea, thought, center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum, wisdom, internal representation, mental representation, representation, belief, kenosis, disbelief, unbelief, heresy, unorthodoxy, end, education, experience, acculturation, culture, lore, traditional knowledge, ignorance, domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain, metaknowledge.

mental object (noun)	goal (noun)
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned	a successful attempt at scoring
	game equipment consisting of the place toward which players of a game try to advance a ball or puck in order to score points
	the state of affairs that a plan is intended to achieve and that (when achieved) terminates behavior intended to achieve it
	the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey)

Difference between mental object and goal

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