But the lack of awareness of this process is crucial. If someone says, “People of this category are bad,” and you accept that, then the representation of thought enters the presentation of perception. Once you've accepted that, it goes into implicit, tacit thought. The next moment, when you see a person of that kind, it comes up as a presentation. The “badness” is perceived as inhering in him. It is not that you say, “I know that somebody has told me that these people are bad, and they may be bad or they may be good. I'd better look and see.” But rather, what they “are” is apparently right
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