Sartre linked them together in big loose equations.The human mind was free, notably in its imaginative capacity to entertain possibilities and think of the world as different from how it was.
They had previously produced only shorts: True Love's premise had the feel of a short film idea that had been strung out way beyond its capacity to entertain.
A capacity to entertain higher-order thoughts about experiences would enable a creature to negotiate the is/seems distinction, perhaps learning not to trust its own experiences in certain circumstances, and also to induce appearances in others, by deceit.
These are globalized cities and "metropoles", in which among others "impact the global environment… organize and regulate worldwide, regional and national flows…have a strategic governance capability…and have the capacity to entertain representative as well as advocacy, relations with other entities…" (Acuto 2010b).
And a capacity to entertain higher-order thoughts about thoughts (beliefs and desires) would enable a creature to reflect on, and to alter, its own beliefs and patterns of reasoning, as well as to predict and manipulate the thoughts and behaviors of others.
The infinitist accepts the need to be able to supply non-circular justification for believing what we do, but argues that given the complexity of the human mind and its capacity to entertain and justifiably believe an infinite number of propositions, there is nothing vicious about the relevant regresses we face.
Russell has always struggled with the question of how to view our understanding of the quantifier expressions of quantity such as 'a' or 'the' but it is clear that he believed that we have the capacity to entertain in thought (directly) the properties (universals) picked out by predicate expressions.
