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The use of a thing by immediate seizure is, on its own, a single act of taking possession. But insofar as such use is grounded upon a continuing need, and consists in the repeated use of a self-renewing product — perhaps even restricting itself for the sake of preserving that renewal — these and other circumstances turn that immediate single act of seizure into a sign that it is meant to bear the significance of a universal taking of possession, and hence of the taking of possession of the elemental or organic basis, or of the other conditions of such products.

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    Hegel (Notes)

    α) § 60. – Use as sign of taking possession of the whole thing – namely, a single use – difference of the thing from use – unity is in the sign of the owner.
    β) all individual uses actually constitute the thing – § 61.
    Hitherto presupposed [was] the immediately singular in possession – now the universal –
    § 60 contains the general determination of this sphere. α) Immediate use – use in general – is really physical – external – relates to the particular – and at once has a higher sense – or distinction of my immediacy and of universality –
    Taking possession fulfills its determination in immediate use
    β) Using-up – taking possession of the singular only [as] thing – but insofar for representation – also of the universal thing – My need as such only for this moment – but man as a thinking being must want to possess a universal – provision
    or using-up is sign – sign and immediate taking-possession in one
    [above:] receives the

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