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[Consider the idea of stealing apples.

How about voting for a sovereign who promises take apples from others and giving them to me?

What if I vote to take wealth from others but not myself.

How is that different from theft?

Here is a choice (a vote, expressing a value) that virtually situates something (a promise, expressing a desire to get something for nothing).]

[Of course, canning applesauce is not sinful, but you, dear reader, may conjure more lurid examples.]

[The second step involves a decision:

I am going to can apple sauce_2b. Or I am not.

In order to do so, I must consider the potential of something concerning making a choice_1b. This corresponds to value_1b.

For example, do I have the ambition to do the task? How important is the task to me_1b? How do I value this opportunity_1b?]

[Here is the first step:

The thought experiment (of canning for the winter)_3a poses an actuality_2a that has ‘something’ to do with me_1a. That actuality_2a reveals my desire_1a.]

[How about an example?

Here is a scenario.

My friend calls. She tells me that there are great apples on sale at the farmer’s market.

I think, ‘Maybe I should be canning apple sauce for the winter.’]

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[Does the potential that underlies my choice_1b virtually emerge from and situate the possibilities inherent in me_1a?

Does value_1b virtually emerge from and situate desire_1a?

Let me walk through this.

The first step is to look at the content-level nested form.

A thought experiment_3a brings something (revealing desire)_2a into relation with the possibilities inherent in me (corresponding to desire)_1a.

The second step is goes with the situation level.

I decide_3b about this something_2a.]

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[The two nested forms may either interscope or intersect.

They interscope according to the previous diagram.

I, seat of choice₃ belongs to a higher category.

Why?

It virtually situates the thought experiment_{3-lower level}.

In other words, a possibility inherent in something (revealing my desire)_{2, lower level} offers the opportunity for ‘I_{3, higher level}’ to make ‘a choice_{2, higher level}’.

The two levels, for sensible construction, are situation and content.]

[The actualities of something_2a and my choice_2b are readily apparent to others.

My choice_2b virtually emerges from and situates my desire_2a.

So let me write these two nested forms out explicitly.

I, seat of choice_3b( my choice_2b( something corresponding to value_1b))

Thought experiment_3a( something corresponding to desire_2a( me_1a))]