Home to countless identities, narratives and perspectives, to claim Detroit is to claim oneself in this sea of diverse possibility.
One can claim for oneself the principled stance of the artist - even as one's producers and sales agents shop for distribution deals with the ruthless hunger of car salesmen.
Obviously, Chinese face is not only a psychological construct (individual image claimed by oneself or approved by the group), but also a social construct (reputation, status and respect authorized by the group).
The ability to imagine someone else's pain or oppression is different to claiming it for oneself.
The situation semanticist cannot appeal to the difference between the property of being taller than Superman and the property being taller than oneself, claiming that the first is a two-place relation and the second a monadic property, as the neo-Russellian can, to distinguish the propositions.
Consider an example: one might take oneself to have offered a reduction of the number one, in claiming that: what it is to be the number one is just to be the successor of zero.
Proponents of these arguments for materialism could respond by claiming either that knowledge of oneself as a mental thing is less certain than this alleged contrast implies, or that knowledge of oneself as a physical thing is more certain than it implies.
Claiming that one writes for oneself is not usually what the literary industry wants to hear.
Is there a case, based solely on self-regarding obligations, for claiming that suicide constitutes harm to oneself sufficient to negate one's autonomy-based prima facie right to choose assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
His sexually duplicitous, establishment brother-in-law reinforces the theme by claiming that it "is sad to find oneself so often striking the elegiac note when one is by temperament and inclination a modernist".
