An illustration of this is provided by the Lan-ch'i County Gazetteer (Lan-ch'i hsien-chih) for the Cheng-te reign (1506-1521), which gives the following figures from a survey made around 1228 in Lan-ch'i county in Wu-chou (present-day Chin-hua) in Chekiang:

See ya' later Pete, I'm making like a tree and leaving.

Said otherwise, objects themselves enable various projects (of course assuming given modes of intentional comportability), and so, “anyone” can take them up and can thereby gain the modes of selfhood implicated therein.

John was a man to whom nothing came amiss; he had an anodyne necklace for fits, and an infallible cataplasm for gout; he was a dexterous bone-setter, and a good dentist.