Sentence examples for secondary object from inspiring English sources
The strong feelings building up in the White House, blocked from direct expression, could be displaced to this secondary object.
But the comedy of the drama issues from the confusion of her free-flowing energy, displaced somewhat obsessively onto a secondary object — the training, her work — when what she's actually devoted to is love — Trevor — and power itself.
It is rather interwoven with the latter: in addition to being primarily directed towards an object, each act is incidentally directed towards itself as a secondary object.
Moreover, it involves only intrinsic denomination, that is, both the primary and the secondary object referred to are characterized by the property in question.
Accordingly, if the secondary object of a proteraesthesis were a just-past act of sensing, we could know with certainty that we ourselves, as the subject of that act, existed a few moments ago.
As a consequence, Brentano denies the idea that there could be unconscious mental acts: since every mental act is incidentally directed towards itself as a secondary object, we are automatically aware of every occurring mental act.
PrPSc puncta were identified as secondary objects by Cy3 fluorescence determination.
One might ask whether God possesses this same freedom in bestowing esse essentiae on possible essences, that is, on (doubly) secondary objects of His knowledge.
Exemplata, or essences, are thus secondary objects of divine knowledge, indeed they are doubly so, and as such they seem to have a purely mental being.
Brentano believed that while we can never know with certainty that primary objects of consciousness exist, we can know with certainly that secondary objects exist, and are as they appear.
In virtue of this, we have a continuous awareness of our own conscious acts over time as well as at a time, although the mechanism in the diachronic case (involving primary objects) differs from that which operates in the synchronic case (which relies on secondary objects).
