 An important consequence of this move is that it implies a distinction between perceptual cognitions that are reliable in this sense and perceptual cognitions that are not. Perceptual episodes that are such that no subsequent determining cognition immediately arises, which, in the passive model, were considered reliable cognitions whose reliability nevertheless had to be ascertained extrinsically, fail here to qualify as reliable cognition. A further consequence is that this model leaves room for mental episodes that are both reliable and non-reliable. For instance, the perception of an impermanent patch of blue, which is followed by the determination “blue” but not by the determination “impermanent,” is only partially reliable.