But even if one were to grant the philosopher the possibility of seeing things from the standpoint of the Absolute, such a standpoint would take away from the philosopher the very unique outlook on the actual world which she possesses as individual.
At California State University, Fullerton, Misty Paig-Tran, a biomechanist, will use CT scans to make a three-dimensional model of the female specimen, most of which she now possesses (the head will soon be delivered to Dr. Walker).
This drew a somewhat odd tribute from the Independent, which found that she possessed "the deadpan timing of Kingsley Amis at his driest, with a tinge of eerie nature mysticism that brings Iris Murdoch to mind".
The box was believed by some to have supernatural power, with Karl Gottlieb von Windisch, writing in his 1784 book Inanimate Reason, that "[o]ne old lady, in particular, who had not forgotten the tales she had been told in her youth … went and hid herself in a window seat, as distant as she could from the evil spirit, which she firmly believed possessed the machine".
Though this is the first stamp she's ever designed, Fiona admits she has long dreamed of this moment: as a child, she was an ardent collector, hoovering up stamps from Australia and communist China, many of which she still possesses.
From this point of view, jealousy, to use Stumpf's example, would be a negative stand and a valuation of the state of affairs that a given person possesses and which another person wants or covets for herself, but which she does not possess; and this state is caused by the belief or judgment (true) that this state of affairs exists (besteht).
Every fringe adventure Ms. Cho describes is a step toward self-discovery and positive self-esteem, which she seems to possess in abundance.
Put like that, the tale has the sad sound of a children's book from the days of "A Little Princess," and there is something antiquated in the object of our heroine's desires: a bicycle, which she longs to possess, and on which her hopes of change and escape — her only plausible ones — are pinned.
Like, one of the young women I wrote about, she couldn't even check out a movie from Blockbuster, because she didn't have a driver's license, and later she, you know, couldn't get into an ice hockey game at a college, because they were, they needed a photo ID to — you know, every time she turned around, somebody was asking for a driver's license, which she didn't possess.
