Many do find it intuitive and prima facie plausible that they are acquainted with or directly aware of at least experiential states and their features, and that this direct awareness is a fundamental source of knowledge.
Even if a sense experience is caused by a defective sense organ, it remains true that one is directly aware of the content of the sensation.
And millions of people who will benefit from that soul-draining work – many of whom may never be directly aware of it.
The theory is that by connecting with the present moment, calmly observing our thoughts, feelings and sensations so as to become more directly aware of them, mindfulness practitioners become, essentially, better able to manage them.
Stuart Applebaum, a spokesman for Random House, said in a statement: "We can't comment on this matter, in part because we have not been made directly aware of any plans affecting specific Random House Inc.
When one has the sensation of seeing a round object, for example, one is directly aware of the roundness, even if the thing one is seeing is not really round.
Representative realism is thus a theory of indirect perception, because it holds that human observers are directly aware of sense-data, and only indirectly aware of the physical objects that cause these data in the brain.
I think what the scheme will do over time is to raise this issue to the board level of organisations so that financial directors are becoming much more directly aware of the carbon costs of their business' activities, and indeed the benefits to them of reducing those costs.
Temple's attitudes seem similar to this: she is very aware (if only intellectually, inferentially) of what she is missing in life, but equally (and directly) aware of her strengths—her concentration, her intensity of thought, her single-mindedness, her tenacity; her incapacity for dissembling, her honesty, her directness.
What is Sam directly aware of?
In this scenario, what is Sam directly aware of?
