Re: What gives an object its identity

reany_at_asu.edu
Date: 12/27/04 

Date: 27 Dec 2004 06:23:56 -0800

robert j. kolker wrote:
> reany@asu.edu wrote:
> > I'll rephrase: Either it is or it not the case that every subset of
the
> > universe is an object. If it's the case that some subsets of the
> > universe are but some subsets of the universe are not objects, then
how
> > do we account for this?
>
> The subsets we perceive are objects (assuming that we are not
> hallucinating). The way we know there is stuff Out There is through
our
> sense. There is nothing in the intellect that was not first in the
senses.
>
> Bob Kolker

I am assuming the existence of material stuff in the universe! I am
questioning the tacit assumption that ONLY certain subsets of that
universe deserve to be called "objects." That is, that only certain
subsets of the universe have the property of "indentity."

Are you saying that only those subsets of the universe which we humans
perceive to be "objects" are objects? If so, is that because,
objectiveness is purely subjective or because humans are magically made
to see the "real objects" in the universe (which all the realists here
believe)?

You did not answer my question how it is that not every subset of the
universe is an object. Why isn't it?

Patrick

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