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[filed under theme 16. Persons / C. Self-Awareness / 1. Introspection ]

Full Idea

I am inclined to think that all conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them.

Gist of Idea

All conscious states can be immediately known when attention is directed to them

Source

Keith Lehrer (Consciousness,Represn, and Knowledge [2006])

Book Ref

'Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness', ed/tr. Kriegel,U /Williford,K [MIT 2006], p.409


A Reaction

This strikes me as a very helpful suggestion, for eliminating lots of problem cases for introspective knowledge which have been triumphally paraded in recent times. It might, though, be tautological, if it is actually a definition of 'conscious states'.