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Ordinary Objects
Ordinary Objects

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[Revised entry by Daniel Z. Korman on February 17, 2025.
Changes to: Bibliography, notes.html]
Our everyday experiences present us with a wide array of objects: dogs and cats, tables and chairs, trees and their branches, and so forth. These sorts of ordinary objects may seem fairly unproblematic in comparison to entities like numbers, propositions, tropes, holes, points of space, and moments of time. Yet, on closer inspection, they are at least as puzzling, if not more so….

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