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9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 2. Abstract Objects / c. Modern abstracta

10626	Objects just are what singular terms refer to [Hale/Wright]
	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.
	From: B Hale / C Wright (Intro to 'The Reason's Proper Study' [2001], 3.1)
	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.