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In philosophy, an object is a thing, an entity,
or a being. This may be taken in several senses.
In its weakest sense, the word "object"
is the most all-purpose of nouns, and can replace
a noun in any sentence at all. (In ordinary usage,
the word has something like this effect, but not
as extreme.) Thus objects are things as diverse
as the pyramids, Alpha Centauri, the number seven,
my disbelief in predestination, and your mother's
fear of dogs. Philosopher Charles S. Peirce defines
the broad notion of an object as anything that we
can think or talk about... |
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