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    Challenges→Two representations can completely crowd out a third representation, rendering it incapable of affecting the state of mind.

    If representations are inherently directed toward objects, their 'inhibition' cannot be total suppression—intentional content persists structurally even when not consciously attended.

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    Key Terms

    Consciously attended(in philosophy of consciousness)
    Actively noticed or paid attention to by your conscious awareness right now.
    Intentional content(Rey 2006: 242)
    Whatever we understand x to be when we use the idiom 'representation of x' but there is no real x
    Representations(as used in epistemology and philosophy of mind)
    Mental images, ideas, or thoughts that stand in for things in the world—essentially, how your mind depicts or understands reality.
    Structurally(in logic and philosophy)
    Built into the basic framework or rules themselves, rather than added on as an afterthought.
    inhibition(SW V: 307–308)
    The metaphysical process by which opposed representations within the same continuum suppress or dim each other, governed by the soul's unity.

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    intentionality(Philosophy of mind and emotion)
    The property of being object-directed; the quality of mental states whereby they are directed at or about something

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