Through vs. By

In response to Nicole - full post here

The memories, I think, are the key here. The universe, as in commonly agreed upon, is one of a deterministic nature, meaning that everything that has happened up to now could only happen in the way that it did. There is no way that you could have had any other car. The memories, thereby are necessarily attributed to that car alone. If, hypothetically, you could go back and change the car, the memories for that car would be different. The point is, you do, in fact, care for the car; the circumstances which led you to care about the car could not have been any different. I'm not sure that you could say that you care about the fact that you care about the car. You do care about the car not because it was the object through which, not by which those specific memories were made.