Any given consciousness moment also signified by the very term citta is thus a unique assemblage of citta and its associated mental factors such as feeling, conceptualization, volition, or attention, to name several of those required in any thought process.
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Thus, Kant had strong motives to give consciousness of self as subject special treatment.
He begins by arguing, on both phenomenological and empirical grounds, that the content of perception is not like the content of a picture; the world is not given to consciousness all at once but is gained gradually by active inquiry and exploration.
Such objects are thus inherently incapable of being directly given to consciousness in the way that entities like sense-data are claimed by their proponents to be.
Mach held the latter view, that "Gestalten are objects of 'sensation' just as soon as their respective foundations are given to consciousness" (Ehrenfels 1890; Smith 1988, 111).
For finite beings, reason is not transparently or infallibly given to consciousness (as some rationalist philosophers seemed to think), just as it cannot deliver transcendent truths.
The second way in which Arendt connected the activity of thinking with that of judging is by showing that thinking, by actualizing the dialogue of me and myself which is given in consciousness, produces conscience as a by-product.
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These, however, are never given to consciousness in a "pure" state as individual sensory atoms, but are always perceived as already compounded[43] into representations (Vorstellungen), that is, into "images of an object or of a process in the external world" (PP II: 3; 1).
Arendt also remarks that thinking, as the actualization of the difference given in consciousness, "is not a prerogative of the few but an ever-present faculty in everybody; by the same token, inability to think is not a failing of the many who lack brain power, but an ever-present possibility for everybody" (LM, vol. I, 191).
