How to describe the object of our quest?
But on closer inspection, Sextus does describe the object of this second kind of assent in epistemological or psychological terms: the forbidden kind of dogma involves assenting to 'unclear objects of investigation in the sciences'.
A mentor takes a personal interest in the person being mentored (some describe the object of mentoring as a "mentee" but to me that sounds too much like a breath mint), becoming a sort of senior friend; the person being mentored, in turn, emulates some aspect of the character, professional habits, or both, of the mentor.
Can it be only happy coincidence that mountain climbers and architects share the same language to describe the objects of their passion, that both talk of slope and cornice, spur and buttress, fluting, pitch, spire?
But Americans don't have words like those to describe the objects of our patriotic attachment (or at least, not until the teutonic-sounding "homeland" entered the national lexicon).
When we reflect upon how the phenomenal character of experience is, and try to "turn inwards" to describe the nature of the experience itself, the best way to do this is to describe the objects of experience and how they seem to us.
Lambert describes the object of this veneration as "the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced and the finest naval commander of all time", which sounds as if it might be pitching things rather high.
By having respondents evaluate samples of vignettes (fictive descriptions), in which several factors describing the object of interest are simultaneously manipulated, this approach has a number of advantages over traditional social survey research.
A surge of fellow-feeling rose in me when I found a Web site called IHateCilantro.com, on which my gustatory brethren described the object of our mutual disaffection as tasting like old soap, dirty laundry, paint thinner, burnt rubber, wet dog, cat piss, doll hair, damp socks, moldy shoes, old coins, feet wrapped in bacon, and "a cigarette if you ate it".
At times Godfrey also describes the object of the intellect as being as being (Quodlibet II, q. 8).
Bacon describes the object of moral inquiry as follows: "This science is preeminently active, that is, operative, and deals with our actions in this life and the other life" ([RBMP], 3).
