Single Idea 7783

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

Full Idea

Not only material bodies but also properties, relations, events, numbers, sets, and propositions are—if they are acknowledged as existing—to be accounted ‘things’.

Gist of Idea

Bodies, properties, relations, events, numbers, sets and propositions are 'things' if they exist

Source

E.J. Lowe (Things [1995])

Book Reference

'Oxford Companion to Philosophy', ed/tr. Honderich,Ted [OUP 1995], p.871


A Reaction

There might be lots of borderline cases here. Is the sky a thing? Is air a thing? How is transparency a thing? Is minus-one a thing? Is an incomplete proposition a thing? Etc.