Sentence examples for an object of consciousness from inspiring English sources
It is an object of consciousness.
How, though, does one gain access by thought to what cannot be an object of consciousness?
It is, e.g., the apparent color of an apparently physical object (or, if you are a Russellian, the color of a sense-datum that you happen to have encountered as an object of consciousness).
Indeed, an even more basic problem is to account for the way in which "the fixed situation of the variously stimulated nerve extremities" becomes an object of consciousness at all (Micro, I, p. 307, cf. pp. 308 309).
For there to be an emotion in the experience of enjoyment (Entzücken) of a work of art, the relations intuited in a unitary and immediate way must become an object of consciousness, and therefore an intentional object.
Maimon's skepticism arises "from the lack of the required ground for this use [of the categories], namely, the insight into the relation of determinability (that the subject, as the determinable, can be an object of consciousness in itself, while the predicate cannot be so in itself, but only as a determination [of the subject]).
Hegel goes beyond Kant, however, and expanding on an idea found in Fichte, makes this requirement dependent on one's recognition (or acknowledgment Anerkennung) of other self-conscious subjects as self-conscious subjects for whom any object of consciousness will be thought as also existing.
Lionel Trilling, observing the portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs, put it this way: she "simply refuses to be an object of your 'social consciousness,' " he wrote.
We stare level-eyed at people who squint back at us, refusing, as Lionel Trilling once put it about Evans's famous portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs, "to be an object of your 'social consciousness.' " He added, "She refuses to be an object at all".
The "authentic" subject, as Sartre will later explain in his Notebooks for an Ethics, will learn to live without an ego, whether transcendental or empirical, in the sense that the transcendental ego is superfluous and the empirical ego (of scientific psychology) is an object for consciousness when it reflects on itself in an objectifying act that he calls "accessory reflection".
