 The “engaged object” is usually identified with the object of reliable cognition, and hence understood differently according to the definition of reliable cognition adopted by each author. In some versions, the “engaged object” stands out as a real, extra-mental particular considered to be the object that is likely to be acted upon at the outcome of a reliable cognition (for instance, a fire when perceiving a fire or when inferring that there is a fire on a mountain pass as one perceives smoke on a mountain pass). According to other authors, such as Chapa, the engaged object is the “object with regard to which opposite superimpositions have been eliminated,” without reference to any transactional “application.”