Full Idea
The strangeness of four-dimensional objects is almost always underestimated in the literature.
Gist of Idea
Four dimensional-objects are stranger than most people think
Source
Peter Simons (Parts [1987], 3.4)
Book Reference
Simons,Peter: 'Parts: a Study in Ontology' [OUP 1987], p.125
A Reaction
See Idea 12836, where he has criticised process ontologists for smuggling in stages and process as being OF conventional objects.
Related Idea
Idea 12836 Fans of process ontology cheat, since river-stages refer to 'rivers' [Simons]