Full Idea
By bringing together scattered sense events and treating them as perceptions of one object, we reduce the complexity of our stream of experience to a manageable conceptual simplicity.
Gist of Idea
Treating scattered sensations as single objects simplifies our understanding of experience
Source
Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.17)
Book Reference
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.17
A Reaction
If, however, our consideration of tricky cases, such as vague objects, or fast-changing objects, or spatially coinciding objects made it all seem too complex, then Quine's argument would be grounds for abandoning objects. See Merricks.