I. ‘Mine’ and the family of human imaginings

This note attempts first to broaden the investigation of ties expressed by ‘my’ and ‘mine’, which was initiated in ‘The Concept of “Mine”; ‘ (Inquiry, Vol. 7, No. 3). Socially accepted types of use ties (active and passive), worth ties and other sorts are distinguished from the previously noted ties of ownership, agency, etc. These further distinctions of ties, it is argued, also deserve the attention of philosophers and conceptually oriented social scientists. The analysis of ‘mine’ is then applied to the much disputed concept of ‘imagining’: some major clusters of divergent facts and phenomena called human imaginings are mapped and related to ‘mine’.