In the use which Weiss adapts from the phenomenologists she discusses, it is, however, more accurate to think of our body images as modes of experiencing our body, enabling or inhibiting our operation in the world.
It is worth noting, however, that some recent philosophers have argued for just such an "adverbial" account of mental imagery itself, construing images as modes of experiencing, rather than the presence to mind of inner entities (Rabb, 1975; Heil, 1982; Tye, 1984; Thomas, 1999b, 2009; Meijsing, 2006).
Lowe expresses what may be much the same underlying thought by suggesting that Locke may perhaps be interpreted as holding an "adverbial" theory of ideas, whereby they are construed as ways (or modes) of experiencing rather than as mental entities (Lowe, 1995 pp. 42– 47, 2005 pp. 47 48).
In Chapter III of Being and Time, Heidegger distinguishes three modes of experiencing the world.
There is growing recognition that standard diagnostic measures may be insensitive to culture-specific modes of experiencing and reporting psychiatric symptoms [ 7, 21].
For them, hearing voices is a normal mode of experience.
The world would look different, feel different, there would be every characteristic of a special, extreme mode of experience.
The mode of experience of rebirth itself is as manifold as the individuality of the person concerned.
The Chinese director Jia Zhangke — as seen in his latest film, "24 City" (Cinema Guild) — defies these dogmas with a blend of fiction and documentary that tilts the scales in favor of fiction as the fundamental mode of experience.
