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side of the house and presents (in the broader sense) the house with both its sensed and unsensed sides. Finally, and more broadly still, the term can be used to refer to an absent object re-presented in, say, memory, or to an object made present in an empty intention , for example, an expectation, or to a state of affairs made present in an empty judgment , and so forth. Hence, the term is used in its broadest sense for all the different kinds of experience simply to refer to the object of awareness. See also FULLNESS; INNER TIM ECONSCIOUSNESS; JUDGE (urteilen); LIVING PRESENT; PRESENTAT IO N (G egenwrtigung) ; RE-PRESEN TAT IO N (Vergeg enwrtigung). PRESENTATION (Gegenwrtigung) . Husserl uses the term Gegenwrtigung to designate the subset of prese ntations (Vorstellungen) that present an object originally, that is, intuitively. Such a presentation intuitively presents (gegenwrtigt) an object by virtue of the fact that it comprises filled intentional moments originally and directly presenting (gegenwrtigend) a side or aspect of an object. Other moments in the act make present or re-present (vergegenwrtigt) those sides and aspects of the object that are not originally and directly present. Hence, while the concrete act or presentation directly and originally presents its concrete object, not every moment within the act originally makes present its correlate, that is, the side or aspect of the object to which it is directed. See also APPERCEPTION (Apperzeption); FULL INTENTION; FULLNESS; IN T U IT IO N ; P E R C E P T IO N (P e rze p tio n ) ; R E -P R E SE N TAT IO N (Vergegenwrtigung). PRESENTATION (Vorstellung) . Husserl identifies numerous senses of the term presentation, a fact that indicates the danger in the use of the word and that motivates Husserls language of objectifying act . The senses important for logic and the theory of knowledge are: 1. A presentation is the act-matter by virtue of which an object is presented in a determinate manner, as such and such; 2. A presentation is a mere presentation, that is, a qualitative modification of belief such that the existence of the object is neither posited nor denied; 3. A presentation is a nominal act ; 4. A presentation is an objectifying act; 5. A presentation is an intuition of the presented object . Among these logical senses, the first and the fourth are primary. A presentation, in other words, is an act that presents an object to an experiencing subject , an objectifying act; presentations in this sense are on a par with and include perceptions, judgments, memories and the like. Such objectifying acts by virtue of their matter present the object in a