"Merleau-Ponty describes the drawing together of these multiple dimensions of a perceptual situation in the notion of an "intentional arc" that "subtends" perception, as well as desire and cognition. It is such an arc, he says, "which projects round about us our past, our future, our human setting, our physical situation, our ideological situation, and moral situation, or rather which results in our being situated in all these respects" (PP, 136). Here we see how the prepersonal is always also particular; and how, in its particularities, it is always suffused with social significations."