CHUCK TUCKER (960502)
Writing about definitions of consciousness encouraged me to
return to a favorite document - Dewey and Bentley's (1949)
KNOWING AND THE KNOWN for this "firm name" of consciousness:
The word has disappeared from nearly all research but
survives under the various disguises in knowledge theory.
Where substantively used as something other than a synonym
of a comparable word, "awareness," we can find under our
postulation no value whatever in it, or in its disguises,
or in the attitudes of inquiry it implies (291).
We who find problems with realist epistemology should also be
extremely careful about the use of the word "consciousness."