inability to represent means of acquisition as important
characteristics of ownership. Apparently, an adequate
semantic intension of ownership must be able to make
reference to means of acquisition. By Miller's (1978)
notion of intension quoted earlier, the intension of "own"
in the well formed sentence, "I own X," requires for both
the Means of Acquisition criteria and the Regular
Acquisitions criteria that reference be made to the
historical acquisition relationship between the subject and
the object. Clearly, for the present framework to become a
proper model of ownership, modifications and further
empirical research will be necessary.
Finally, the. present study was designed by and
responded to by representatives of one culture. If the
framework of ownership developed here is to become ‘a model
of ownership with universal applicability, many more
cultures will have to be examined. Rohner (1975) has
described a universalist approach to behavioral sciences, an
approach that might be useful for the present topic. He
advocates a triangulaton of methodologies if pan-cultural
generalizations are the ultimate goal. A survey of
ownership behaviors in a selected sample of cultures could
be accumplished through the Human Relations Areas Files
(Levinson & Malone, 1980). These are an indexation of
numerous anthropological ethnographies. Levinson & Malone