It is precisely this feature of the idea (that it both purports to refer to a somehow sensible object AND that it involves thinking that object as already given in its totality) that leads to the two opposed sets of arguments.
It's hard for me to fool myself into thinking that object ownership can bring me any real joy, but if something is sublimely beautiful, it can fill a need that's much deeper than compulsive collecting.
If it is not natural to think of objects as having objects as their temporal parts, this seems to commit one to thinking of objects as wholly present at all times of their existence, strange though this form of expression may also be.
Since the less-blurry red images tricked the spiders into thinking that objects were closer than they really were, the experiment suggests that the spiders uses the fuzziness of that secondary image to judge distance.
Griffin emphasized behavioral flexibility and versatility as the chief source of evidence for consciousness, which he defined as "the subjective state of feeling or thinking about objects and events" (Griffin & Speck 2004, p. 6).
One such method, employed in chapter 2, when exploring the sound world, involves imagining creatures with quite different experiences to our own, and trying to determine their capacities for thinking about objects.
In die Stelle des Idealismus und Realismus gesetzt (GW 16, 287 ff).. Hegel's basic claim as to the identity of thinking and being in the object might be said to have some initial plausibility if one takes such a claim to be a somewhat metaphorical expression of the view that in our ways of thinking about objects some conceptual elements are invariably involved.
Talking or thinking about objects have been suggested to imply the reactivation of previous experiences, and the recruitment of the same neural circuits involved during perception and action towards those objects would allow the re-enactment of multimodal information (color, size, width, etc).
One school of thinking strongly objects to having the A-talk at all.
I bought a couch and flat screen television, thinking these objects might (as in the real world) facilitate intimacy.
