Full Idea
I think of objects as substances, and a substance is an object considered as a bearer of properties.
Gist of Idea
Objects are substances, which are objects considered as the bearer of properties
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 04.2)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.41
A Reaction
This is an area of philosophy I always find disconcerting, where an account of how we should see objects seems to have no connection at all to what physicists report about objects. 'Considered as' seems to make substances entirely conventional.