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Although the self and its acts are not presented to consciousness as objects of awareness, we are obliquely aware of them simply by dint of being active subjects.
The basis of Hume's exposition is a twofold classification of objects of awareness.
The theme that ideas are the only immediate objects of awareness repeats itself elsewhere in Descartes' writings.
Objects of awareness are represented by "of-what" role-holders played by a physical or a semi-abstract.
Of central importance is the way that objects of awareness are presented or intended in our experiences, especially, the way we see or conceive or think about objects.
Only because ideas lack these characteristics is Hume able to reason from the claim that mind-independent tables are not immediate objects of awareness to his stated conclusion above that we immediately perceive only ideas or representations.
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It may be held that Sam's mental state has no object of awareness since it is entirely false, whereas Sally's mental state has the physical pineapple as its object of awareness.
Thus, in neither case must we posit a mental object of awareness, as in the sense data theory (Huemer 2001, pp. 127 8).
One way for a critic of sense data to respond to this argument would be to deny that state B causes Sam to have a mental object of awareness.
Once we have agreed that the immediate object of awareness is not the real, external object, we are then meant to infer that it must be some sort of image of the physical object in our minds, which we perhaps confused with the physical object.
Modifications might be made to this argument to make it more plausible: the first premise might be put in counterfactual terms, rather than in terms of actual changes; "direct awareness" might replace "awareness"; and one might specify more carefully in what respects the properties of experience must covary with those of the object of awareness.
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