Sentence examples for case of conscious from inspiring English sources

The thesis of supervenience has called attention to a particularly striking difficulty about how to integrate talk about minds into a general scientific understanding of the world, a difficulty that arises both in the case of conscious states and in the case of intentional ones.

In the rather special case of conscious thoughts, there need be no close correspondence between content- and vehicle-properties: the thought 'I've been thinking about this for many years' need only occupy a moment or two.

So here's hoping this turns out to be a simple case of "conscious uncoupling".

As for the question of a possible law authorizing the administration of lethal drugs, opinions were equally distributed in favor or against such a law both in the case of conscious patients (48.5% against versus 51.5% for) and unconscious patients (47.4% against versus 52.6% for).

Prospects for belief/desire individuation in non-mental, environmentally externalist terms may look doubtful, especially in cases of conscious attitudes(see Horgan, Tienson and Graham 2006).

If this case is one in which the subject is justified, and justified to the same degree as in ordinary cases of conscious perception, one might then start to wonder whether consciousness must play a role even in ordinary cases of perceptual justification.

The conscious state is intentionally directed at an object outside itself such as a tree or chair in the case of a conscious perception as well as intentionally directed at itself.

A famous case of "minimally conscious," said Dr. Michael P. McQuillen, a professor of neurology at the University of Rochester, was that of a woman who appeared vegetative but, on overhearing her sister on the phone making funeral arrangements for a favorite uncle, began to cry.

For in adopting this stance one would be committed to the epistemic claim that in the case of any conscious mental event that lacks the phenomenal properties of a genuine perception, the fact that it lacks the relevant phenomenal properties will be something that is knowable through introspection.

Whether they always represent definitely held views, or indeed whether they are in some cases evidence of conscious duplicity, may be harder to say.

| Updated Roger Pielke Jr. of the University of Colorado has laid out a disturbing chronology making a very powerful case for conscious exclusion of one of his papers on hurricanes and greenhouse-driven warming by climate panel authors.