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Full Idea
There is a certain - very mild - sense in which I don't think the physical world comes with ready-made objects. I think instead that we (conventionally) carve it up into objects, and this can be done any way we like.
Gist of Idea
Basically, the world doesn't have ready-made 'objects'; we carve objects any way we like
Source
Michael Jubien (Possibility [2009], 1.5)
Book Ref
Jubien,Michael: 'Possibility' [OUP 2009], p.32
A Reaction
I have no idea how one could begin to refute such a view. Obviously there are divisions (even if only of physical density) in the world, but nothing obliges us to make divisions at those points. We happily accept objects with gaps in them.