Humans are capable of possessing a very large number of temperamental biases, but my colleagues and I have been studying only two members of this extensive set.
Individual rights are subject to innumerable disputes, but virtually no-one denies that individuals, as persons or in other capacities, are capable of possessing rights.
In its pure state it is capable of knowing, without reliance on the senses, everything naturally knowable, even sensible things, and thus presumably also is capable of possessing the concepts in terms of which such knowledge is formulated.
Here, we predict that MPn (M =Ti, Zr, and Hf; Pn =Sb and Bi) honeycombs are capable of possessing QAH insulating phases based on first-principles electronic structure calculations.
Budd (1995, 164 71) points out that we have an extensive interest in abstract forms outside the realm of music, such as those of natural formations and in the decorative arts, and that such forms are capable of possessing valued aesthetic properties, such as beauty, elegance, and so on.
Having such a status indicates that one is "capable of possessing international rights and duties and endowed with the capacity to take certain types of actions on the international plane".
Be capable of solving your own problems.
To possess attitudes and be capable of speech is already to be capable of interpreting others and to be open to interpretation by them.
Moreover, a being with such a network of propositional attitudes would be capable of high level thought, and therefore be possessed of a language in which to do this thinking.
