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    A relation of acquaintance accounts for the possibility o... — Carmelics
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    A relation of acquaintance accounts for the possibility of having an experience, temporarily failing to notice it, and then noticing it again.

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    • 1.Acquaintance is a relation one can stand in to one's experience or to some feature of experience.
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    • 2.One can have a pain without noticing it, and later notice it again.
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    • 3.A relation that allows variable degrees of access to experience is needed to explain such cases.
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    • 1.Higher-order thought theories (Rosenthal) hold that a mental state is conscious only when accompanied by a suitable higher-order representation of it.
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    • 2.If unnoticed pain requires a higher-order thought to become conscious, acquaintance adds no explanatory work—the noticing just is the higher-order thought arising.
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    • 3.Positing a pre-existing acquaintance relation to explain the transition from unnoticed to noticed experience is therefore redundant and violates parsimony.
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    • 1.Mach, James, and later Dennett argue that 'unnoticed experience' is a theoretically loaded phrase that smuggles in a Cartesian inner theater without justification.
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    • 2.If there is no fact of the matter about an experience occurring prior to any form of noticing or discriminative response, then acquaintance cannot be the relation that explains the gap between having and noticing experience.
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    As we have seen, the familiar experience of temporarily failing to notice one’s pain while engrossed in conversation serves as a potential illustration of acquaintance. In at least some such cases, the pain does not disappear entirely, even though one no longer notices it. Some may be inclined to deny that one can have a pain without being in some way aware or conscious of the pain. (BonJour 2003 seems to hold this view. See also, Chalmers 2010: 291.) But it does seem that the sort of case Fumer
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