Detroiters who are worried about ceding local power to Michigan's Republican governor shouldn't forget the ways in which power has already been ceded to an unelected oligarchy, whose members might, no matter how ostensibly well intentioned, possess questionable ideas about urban renewal.
Many small businesses possess innovative ideas and talent but lack the resources and experience to fully capitalize on them.
Scholastics held that because God is the creative cause of all natural beings, he must possess the ideas corresponding to each of his creatures.
Some authors also suggest that children are no longer exclusively seen as passive subjects who can benefit from certain services and privileges, but that they can also be conceived of as active actors who possess interesting ideas and are able to make proposals about their own future.
And from the mere fact that there is such an idea within me, or that I who possess this idea exist, I clearly infer that God also exists, and that every single moment of my entire existence depends on him...
And from the mere fact that there is such an idea within me, or that I who possess this idea exist, I clearly infer that God also exists, and that every single moment of my entire existence depends on him..
In this way, the individual should come to possess "an idea of an absolute good, common to him with [all other members of society] — an idea indefinable indeed in imagination, but gradually defining itself in act" (PE 202).
I suppress my dream of power, a fantasy I might possess an idea to improve myself or society, let alone possess the means to show any single person what she should or shouldn't do next.
J R, who aspires to be a television news anchor, is vain, needy and abrasive, but at least seems to possess an idea of what it would mean to be charming.
These assumptions are tacit, meaning that an individual may not realize they possess the idea.
