 The association relation may also be non-occurrent and the belief still justified by the reason in question. In this case, condition (i) will have been satisfied in the past and the dispositional state described in condition (ii) will still be present. The “de re awareness” is a non-propositional, direct awareness of E’s supporting P. This is the sort of awareness one might have of being thirsty or cold before thinking “I’m thirsty” or “I’m cold”. This awareness is non-propositional in that you need not put it into words in order to have it, and it is direct in the sense that no sensation state (mental image, sense datum) need come between being thirsty and being aware of one’s thirst. By contrast, some have held that, for example, our awareness that there is a table in the room is indirect in that it is mediated by a sensation state (mental image, sense-datum) which represents the table.