On the first day, they went to a pantomime with a toy stall, where Josie's older male cousins directed her straight towards the sort of item supposedly beloved of small girls: a fluffy pink tiara.
But buying any kind of hose wasn't a top priority, especially since it didn't seem like the sort of item I would quickly purchase online while sitting at my desk, ostensibly working.
I use the word reference loosely; one was "The Greatest Dot to Dot Book in the World" for $6.95, which seemed more like the sort of item that a fifth-grade teacher would confiscate than condone.
This argument is nicely summarized by one of its opponents, Bennett: "Some people have objected that facts are not the sort of item that can cause anything.
Buxton jerks back in his chair with irritation: "It's just because we are this sort of nebulous item, so people fixate on the school we went to and think, 'Oh, they're not northern, they're not stand-up, they're not really anything, so let's make them slacker toffs.'" After a two-second pause they both shrug self-mockingly: "Fair enough, really".
This sort of abstract item, Levinson writes, "does not preexist the activity of composition and is thus capable of being created" (1980a, 79; cf. John Andrew Fisher 1991).
In particular, it is not clear why beliefs about physical objects must be somehow based on the awareness of this other sort of item.
But sewerage networks and waste water treatment works are not designed to remove these sort of items and, unfortunately, more and more are ending up in our rivers and beaches".
So, in the case of Socrates and Plato, the question is "What sort of item is this humanity that both Socrates and Plato exemplify?" A related question that realists have to face is the problem of individuation.
