This is so because of his sense-datum theory, according to which what is immediately present to us, i.e., what we are acquainted with when we are acquainted with particulars, are just sense-data and not objects in the sense of individual things with qualities standing in relations to each other.
To do so, Hume demands that sympathy operate to communicate passions between persons who are not immediately present to each other and that it operate counter-factually, according to general rules.
The Friar is more immediately present to us.
Hinduism, for example, asserts that the self is divine, while other traditions claim that God alone exists (Sufism), that God is immediately present to the soul (Christianity and Judaism), and that all things are empty (Mahayana Buddhism).
That portrait too is cut off mid-torso, but its plain blue ground makes it seem both less immediately present to us physically and more remote as a human being.
This uncertainty arises, Maimon argues, because the moral character of an action is not immediately present to cognition.
Other minds are not immediately present to us in the way that our own mind and its modifications are, and so they cannot even be known by consciousness.
On his version of this theory, material objects are unintelligible in themselves and can be known only via something spiritual and immediately present to the mind.
Don't use the camera or microphone to cross-reference and immediately present personal information identifying anyone other than the user, including use cases such as facial recognition and voice print.
It is always immediately present to the subject (Merleau-Ponty, 1945; O'Shaughnessy, 1980), but the most permanent and preponderant object in life may also be the most elusive one (Leder, 1990).
