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5 Happiness and Unhappiness their Ingredients
-ment of enjoyment, to produce enjoyment: if of
security, to avert pain if a remote instrument
of enjoyment to produce some immediate
one or less remote or immediate one: if
an object valuable by representation to go in
exchange for some one of the three former
articles.
Of a Pleasure of Possession the instrument and Pleasure of Possession. Instrument of a
only instrument is an object of Possession. It
is external: internal there is none but in
the mind.
I was hungry yesterday: I had a piece of money:
I gave it to a Baker who gave
me bread for it. I d eat. I felt a pleasure.
Today I have no money: but I am hungry
as before. I find a piece of money. Finding it, I may make what use I please of it, I possess it.. I know
that by carrying this piece to the man to whom
I carried the former piece, I may get bread and
NOTES
instruments of pleasure enjoyment or security into adequate
and partial, and into instruments of the 1stremove
and 2ndremove and so on. But what has been
said is sufficient for the present.
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Happiness and Unhappiness their Ingredients. Pleasures of Possession A Pleasure of Possession is Pleasure arising
from the idea of the present Possession of something
which in this view is stiled an object
of Possession.
Objects of Possession Objects of Possession are either Corporal Real
or Incorporal Figurative.
CorporalReal Incorpora Corporal Real objects of Possession are
the several sorts of substances we see and
handle.
- Incorporeal Incorporeal Figurative objects of Possession are Rights derived from real ones. Hence to understand them we must begin with real ones. It is one of the inconveniences of language to associate the nature of any idea that has no architype in nature with the name of one that has. Objects of Possession are what
- Figurative are called Rights. Of these any one of the idea is very
Instead of what is insert from p.8 to p.9 of the Inserenda complex and abstracted abstruse. Indeed It is only in a figurative
and abusive sense that they are
stiled objects of Possession. The only real objects of Possession strictly speaking are corporeal ones. They are others are mere
fictitious existences, creatures of the Brain
which never to had better never have been ranked under
the same denomination with things really real existences.
existing actual The only real objects of Possession, strictly properly
speaking are Corporeal ones. Of the petitions
we shall say speak no further here.
Corporeal Real Corporeal Real objects of Possession are either valueable
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