Sentence examples for genuine possession from inspiring English sources

He hypothesizes that Camille's illness may be "a case of genuine possession".

This is because genuine possession of a concept requires both the ability to derive an abstraction from concretes and the ability to go on to apply it to new concretes; if all our experience were a dream, the concept of waking could neither be derived from nor applied to any concretes.

This response to the explanationist can be elaborated in the context of a theory of concept possession according to which a necessary condition of the genuine possession of a given concept (of the sort of primary interest in philosophical investigation) is the reliability of one's intuitions regarding hypothetical cases.

Hopefully, however, he will do some soul searching and realize external validation never trumps genuine self-possession.

But suppose one also thinks it is clear that phenomenal character is confined to sensory experience and imagery, and that this cannot bring with it the rational and inferential capacities required for genuine concept possession.

But if her sorrow is genuine, her other possessions, including the name Lily, belong to a stranger; they aren't hers.

For the next 15 minutes Stoke had Tranmere firmly pegged back inside their own half, although they struggled to turn their possession into genuine goal-scoring chances.

The baby-boom generation in America is thought to have found something approaching genuine happiness in material possessions.

In his 2008 essay about suffering from Parkinson's disease, "Mine Is Longer Than Yours," Michael Kinsley examined longevity as the final competitive game among baby boomers: The baby-boom generation in America is thought to have found something approaching genuine happiness in material possessions.

Most anyone happening upon them in the petunia bed would surely be certain they were in possession of a genuine piece of ancient history.

According to Ōhashi, in order for a group of thinkers to form a genuine "school" of philosophy, "there must be the common possession or formation of a thought" (Ōhashi 2004, 9).