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[Now, allow me to consider the intersection.

Is the intersection more convenient for exploring Schoonenberg’s comments on freedom?

I think so.

If these two nested forms intersected, two permutations are possible.

This is the one I select:

The content level becomes the horizontal (not vertical) axis.

The situation becomes the vertical axis.]

[Look at the interscoping nested form.

Where does the collective enter into the picture?

It does through the thought experiment_3a.]

Summary of text [comment] page 83

[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.]