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The term "mind" is from the Old English gemynd, or "memory," and the Proto-Indo-European verbal root *men-, meaning "to think, remember." The use of "mind" to refer to all mental faculties, thought, feelings, memory, and volition developed gradually over the 14th and 15th centuries.

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