The first person to pick up a loose ball and secure it becomes its possessor".
The narrow content of a representation is determined by properties intrinsic to it or its possessor, such as its syntactic structure or its intramental computational or inferential role.
Afterwards they are admitted to the training in the master-science of 'dialectic', a science of which little more is said beyond the indication that it enables its possessor to deal in a systematic way with the objects of real knowledge, the Forms, and with the Form of the Good in particular, the principle of the goodness of all else (531c 535a).
Both the Sophist and Statesman search for the essence of their target kinds, the stable feature or collection of features that makes its possessor what it is.
"You remember the 'precious'?" he said, alluding to the magic ring that causes its possessor to guard it obsessively.
Watts and Means discuss the theft of the Cross; Watts explains that it is fabled to grant its possessor invulnerability, and that the Nazis had attempted to find it to turn the tide of the Second World War.
Now the brothers demand a positive account of what justice is and what it does to the soul of its possessor.
He added, "It is a voice that should carry its possessor far".
According to Scherkoske "Integrity is an epistemic virtue: that is, it is a stable disposition that reliably places its possessor in good epistemic position and leads to cognitive success" (Scherkoske 2011, 196).
There is no reason to assume that his demand had any political background (divine status gave its possessor no particular rights in a Greek city); it was rather a symptom of growing megalomania and emotional instability.
We can determine, by observing the various sorts of traits toward which we feel approval, that every such trait — every virtue — has at least one of the following four characteristics: it is either immediately agreeable to the person who has it or to others, or it is useful (advantageous over the longer term) to its possessor or to others.
