feeling of effort

is the exertion, striving, straining of a sense, involving looking rather than just seeing, listening rather than just hearing, scenting rather than just smelling, and touching rather than just feeling.

That we have a feeling of effort there can be no doubt. Popular language has sufficiently consecrated the fact by the institution of the word effort, and its synonyms exertion, striving, straining. The difference between a simply passive sensation, and one in which the elements of volition and attention are found, has also been recorded by popular speech in the difference between such verbs as to see and to look... to hear and to listen... to smell and to scent...to feel and to touch In whatever way we conceive of knowing, it is . . . a comportment toward beings. (dreyfus : being in the world 56)

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feeling of effort