Exemplarization and self-presentation: Lehrer and Meinong on consciousness.

Alexius Meinong's specific use of the term 'self-presentation' had a significant influence on modern epistemology and philosophical psychology. To show that there are remarkable parallels between Meinong's account of the self- presentation of experiences and Lehrer's account of the exemplarization of experiences is one of this paper's main objectives. Another objective is to put forward some comments and critical remarks to Lehrer's approach. One of the main problems can be expressed by the following: The process of using a particular experience as a sample, that is, an exemplar that we use to stand for and refer to a plurality of experiences, Lehrer calls 'exemplarization'. As concrete experiences are multifarious (red and round, for example), how can we single out a specific sort of experiences (the red ones) by the process of exemplarization when we use such a multifarious experience as a sample? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]