wedrifid comments on How To Have Things Correctly - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Alicorn 17 October 2012 06:10AM

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Comment author: shminux 17 October 2012 03:50:25PM 0 points [-]

The comment I was replying to said

I am the owner of a 16 inch telescope, a jet ski, a table with a gourmet meal at the best restaurant in the city

None of those qualify as "potential-ownership", they are a shared-access resource.

Comment author: wedrifid 17 October 2012 03:58:30PM 1 point [-]

None of those qualify as "potential-ownership", they are a shared-access resource.

Is there something about "potential-ownership" that gives it a different meaning to "an item that I could potentially buy and thereby become the owner of"?