The Ultimate Objecthood Quiz

Object: A Philosophical Notion

• Object is a philosophical term that refers to a thing observed, in contrast to the observer, who is called the subject.
• The concept of objecthood concerns how objects are related to their properties and relations.
• Substance theory and bundle theory are two leading theories about objecthood that address the problems of change and substances.
• The word object is derived from the Latin objectus, which means “to throw, or put before or against”.
• The term object refers to a maximally general category whose members can be referred to, quantified over, and thought of.
• Object is often used as a contrast to property, an entity that is not a property and cannot be referred to by predicates.
• Object can be used in contrast to subject, either as an entity that fails to experience or an entity that is experienced.
• The change problem asks what underlies the properties of an object that manifests itself through them in a regular and unified way.
• The problem of substance asks on what basis one can conclude the existence of a substance that cannot be seen or scientifically verified.
• Bertrand Russell updated classical terminology with the term fact, which is everything that exists in the world.
• Value theory concerns the value of objects, while physics concerns the nature of physical objects.
• Symbols represent objects, and the map-territory relation is the basic problem of semantics.