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emotions in regard to things, events, and persons, or when the agent decides about what is truly good in the light of evidence . The contrast is with merely accepting passively what others claim to be the true or the good. On the other hand, this description points toward the norm, a good, toward which all experiencing agents strive insofar as they are concerned to disclose truthfully what is and should be the case. Husserls authenticity, then, is not to be understood in a fully volitional sense, for it is not only a matter of choosing or willing well. It is also a matter of knowing well and insofar as volition presupposes the grasp of the value of things, actions, and persons of feeling well, valuing well, and acting well. See also AUTONOMY; ETHICS; EVIDENCE; REASON. AUTONOM Y. Autonomy is for Husserl related to the notion of authenticity . The autonomous agent is one who decides for himself or herself what is true, or valuable, or good, or a worthwhile activity, and so forth. Hence, for H usserl the notion of autonomy is no t limited to the will or practical reason. Any evidential experience, that is, an experience in which I have evidence for a claim or a supposition, is a form of decision insofar as I certify for myself that the claim or supposition is true or false. Similarly, in the axiological sphere, any judgment about the value of a thing, event, action, or person must be grounded in both a cognitive evidencing of the valuab le features of the object and an emotional legitim ation of the objects worth. See also EVALUATION; VOLITION. AWAKENING . The affection that occurs in the impressional moment of the living present awakens retained intentional contents having an affinity to those in the impressional moment. Awakening makes these contents availab le, as it were, for re colle ction in the living pre se nt, the re by informing ones present sense of the object by past experiences. Awakening reverses the tendency of what is retained to affect consciousness less and less. See also ASSOCIATION; PRIM AL IM PRESSION; RETENTION. AXIOLO GY. Axiology is the study of value . Insofar as values exist as the correlate of acts of valuing, for Husserl axiology as a phenomenological o r p hilosophical study would involve d esc rip tion s id e ntifying the essentia l structures o f the valuing experience and both its particular correlate, the thing as valued, and its abstract correlate, the value itself. See also FORMAL AXIOLOGY.