awareness

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Every perceptual awareness involves the act of being aware of phenomenal objects that characterize this perceptual awareness, whether or not this awareness is an hallucination or a veridical perception of external objects.

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  1. The state of being aware. Recognition of reality in our view is not awareness. Mind, X. 525. This consciousness I speak of is not a direct perception of the Absolute, but a general awareness that it exists. New Princeton Rev., II. 178.

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  • The last thing to impinge on her awareness was the knowledge that she was an utter failure. —  Time Scout
  • The next sensation to impinge on his awareness was his nakedness. —  Wagers of Sin
  • Every perceptual awareness involves the act of being aware of phenomenal objects that characterize this perceptual awareness, whether or not this awareness is an hallucination or a veridical perception of external objects. —  Pain
  • And we have got to realize that we are -- our awareness is the singlemost threat that these guys have to ... —  CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2006
  • CAROL WEIHRER, WOKE UP DURING EYE REMOVAL SURGERY, FOUNDER, ANESTHESIA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN: Anesthesia awareness is the phenomenon of supposedly being under full general anesthesia, but for one reason or another, the anesthesia that puts your brain to sleep does not work. —  CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007
 

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