"Like, 'Well, now I don't need it.' But obviously, although we all like to think differently, collecting is about possessing an object".
Using bikes to examine the nature of possessing an object in Being and Nothingness, Sartre echoes many a cyclist when he remarks that "handing over a banknote is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realise this possession".
This disjunctivist may be able to provide some positive account of the phenomenal character that veridical perception and hallucination can share, while allowing that there are certain mental properties distinctive of veridical perception (e.g., its possessing an object-dependent intentional content).
When you remind people that they're deprived, they become drawn to whatever happens to be scarce nearby, as though possessing a scarce object corrects the imbalance.
After all, a king fantasising about and possessing a love object of his own creation would seem to be unpromising material for a Fabian socialist and proponent of feminism.
The two potentialities need to match each other: when there is a potentiality for being heated in the object undergoing change, the process needs to be initiated by another object possessing an active potentiality for effecting heat.
If a walk-in possesses any object or item that appears suspicious or potentially hazardous, security personnel should deny access even if the walk-in presents the item as evidence of some intelligence he offers, e.g., red mercury presented as proof of plutonium enrichment.
For many people, joining a knitting circle or visiting a boutique that offers handmade felt bracelets will always be more about the simple pleasure of making and possessing a hand-crafted object than about making a political statement.
At the conclusion of the Oedipal Complex the boy identifies with the father, establishes a super-ego within, and abandons the immediate object of desire with the promise that he too will one day possess a similar object modeled on the mother.
Individualistic powers, in contrast, are powers possessed by an object to affect or be affected by a particular object.
Water Street Studios will present work referencing kinetic energy, the energy possessed by an object due to its motion, with an opening reception at 7 p.m. on April 20.
