Consider the Australian bowerbird, unique in fashioning an inverted arch of sticks purely for displaying the objects it collects, like "a set for a performance".
Avery's notion of children purely as objects to be used for his gratification makes him a thoroughly convincing villain, as does his ability to manipulate.
For example, Hero of Alexandria (mid-1st century ce) asserted, purely for philosophical reasons, that an object and its mirror image must make equal angles to a mirror.
A small group of gaze-control models has been proposed purely for performing the task of object detection.
These once were popular in medical museums and cabinet-of-wonders institutions in which objects were presented purely for their rarity or freakishness.
We have implemented point clouds with 10,000 points for the display of true 3D objects, 190,500 points for the display of extruded objects with arbitrarily textured top surfaces, 180,500 points for the display of purely extruded objects, 83,866 points for the extension of the game Pac-Man to 3D, and 127,223 points for the face model used to create a 3D avatar.
Take a commonly used home object that is owned purely for its functional benefits, like a kitchen knife.
Note that the model is purely for pupil configurations and does not explicitly account for object conditions.
The surface of sheet copper can be engraved, however, and this technique was often used for decorating purely ornamental objects.
But, in the heat of a campaign, the documentary would have been greeted differently, as a purely political object — mined for ready clues to his political positions, spun predictably by supporters and detractors.
If the dualist comes and says, "Can't you just see that it's not remotely possible, it's not conceivably possible, for a purely physical object to have experiences, to have qualia?" what I want to say is, "No, I don't see that it's impossible.
