Sentence examples for a proper object of from inspiring English sources

Can Hitler be a proper object of humor?

In her post about the profusion of "Downfall" parodies that turn up on YouTube, my colleague Amy Davidson asks, "Can Hitler be a proper object of humor?" I'd say that the evidence suggests a slightly different question: Can fictional representations of Hitler be anything but funny?

Only the last group – surely a tiny minority – would be a proper object of our gratitude.

Hence, nothing about which they have conflicting attitudes is or can be a proper object of knowledge.

In identifying numerical relations as the basis for knowledge Philolaus may in part be responding to Parmenides' strictures on what constitutes a proper object of thought.

Mathematical relationships certainly fit a number of the characteristics of a proper object of thought as set out by Parmenides in Fr. 8, e.g., they are ungenerated, imperishable, and unchangeable (see Huffman 1993, 67 8).

Each faculty has a proper object: the proper object of the understanding is truth, which has "being from Eternity in the Divine Ideas" (Astell 2002, 137); the proper object of the will is the good, which is God's will (Astell 2002, 206).

The representation of the emotions was considered a proper object, sometimes the object, of aesthetic criticism.

According to the English philosopher, only what can be signified by a complex expression is a being, and whatever is the proper object of an act of signifying is a truth.

Within the framework of LOTH, it is only in this sense can it be said that what is believed is a proposition, and thus the proper object of the attitude.

The proper object of a complete system of metaphysics should be that of adjudicating the relative degree of reality of any fragmentary existent, yet as some critics objected, it is difficult to see how this could be carried out even in principle, given Bradley's contention that the Absolute is, strictly speaking, unknowable.