In connection with a forthcoming book commemorating the building's centennial, he had agreed to pose for a photograph with an object of his choice from the collection — specifically, the handwritten manuscript of "The Importance of Being Earnest".
Kant claims that this is problematic because in a practical respect an object is considered merely as an object of possible choice.
Once you've attached the sticker to an object of your choice, you can track it down again using the StickNFind iOS and Android apps, which tell you whether you're getting farther from or closer to the object in question — basically, it's the tech version of that that hotter/colder game.
They focus their attention on a particular object, however, a particular problem or process, a particular molecule or model organism: a particular object of choice (a).
He suggests that the human clitoris "could have evolved to be much more conspicuous if males had preferred sexual partners with larger brighter clitorises" and that "its inconspicuous design combined with its exquisite sensitivity suggests that the clitoris is important not as an object of male mate choice, but as a mechanism of female choice".
Put simply, while an individual act involving one agent can be the object of choice, a compound act involving multiple agents is difficult so to conceive.
His grip tightened around his object of choice: not a trinket featuring the London Games' omnipresent one-eyed mascots, but the baton he had received from his training mate, Yohan Blake, and carried across the finish line in world-record time moments earlier.
They are tormented by desire, mistrusted as potential frauds and hyper-actively obsessed with their research object of choice ($ ◊ a), filtering out anything else as noise.
But for many other researchers, the object of choice will rather prove a source of frustration, resulting in various symptoms, from workaholism via burn-out up to fraud.
