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Single Idea 10626

[filed under theme 9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta ]

Full Idea

Objects, as distinct from entities of other types (properties, relations or, more generally, functions of different types and levels), just are what (actual or possible) singular terms refer to.

Gist of Idea

Objects just are what singular terms refer to

Source

B Hale / C Wright (Intro to 'The Reason's Proper Study' [2001], 3.1)

Book Ref

Hale,B/Wright,C: 'The Reason's Proper Study' [OUP 2003], p.8


A Reaction

I find this view very bizarre and hard to cope with. It seems either to preposterously accept the implications of the way we speak into our ontology ('sakes'?), or preposterously bend the word 'object' away from its normal meaning.