What is "possesses"

Usage examples of "possesses".

Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man, who like Satan thought himself for an instant equal to God, but who now acknowledges with Christian humility that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom.

And that means that a holon of depth three, for example, has to exist in an environment that also possesses holons of at least the same depth.

Even though the biosphere is instrumental to the noosphere, the biosphere itself still possesses equal Ground-value (as the visible, sensible God/dess), and further, each biospheric holon possesses its own degree of instrinsic value (an ape is more intrinsically valuable than an atom, but the latter is more extrinsically valuable than the former).

It possesses coherence and identity across space and time (or else it simply ceases to exist), which is why autonomy is virtually synonymous with agency, regime, code, canon, deep structure.

If lower holons possess interiority, which I believe they do, and if any holon exists only in a system of relational exchange with other same-level holons, which it does, then any holon possesses a shared interiority with its peers, and that is a "world-view" or "common worldspace" in the broadest sense.

The human neocortex, for example, possesses the potential for rationality or hypothetico-deductive thought, but the neocortex, which emerged in today's form about fifty thousand years ago, did not emerge with rational thought in full blossom.

The conop child already possesses the shared linguistic structure (and grammar) to decipher the words.

My father, the Comte de Morcerf, although of Spanish origin, possesses considerable influence, both at the court of France and Madrid, and I unhesitatingly place the best services of myself, and all to whom my life is dear, at your disposal.

The count is fond of travelling, and, being rich, possesses a vessel of his own.

This man evidently possesses the power of influencing events, both as regards men and things.

I call those first-rate which are composed of treasures one possesses under one’s hand, such as mines, lands, and funded property, in such states as France, Austria, and England, provided these treasures and property form a total of about a hundred millions.

I know of none which Cavalcanti possesses, excepting his palace in Lucca.

It is an every-day occurrence for a gambler to lose not only what he possesses but also what he has not.

For they say that, as Juno possesses the lower part of the heavens,-that is, the air,-so Salacia possesses the lower part of the sea, and Proserpine the lower part of the earth.

Or if they say that she possesses the higher part of the ether,-and on that account the poets have feigned that she sprang from the head of Jove,- why then is she not rather reckoned queen of the gods, because she is superior to Jove?