Peircers, What makes an object is a perennial question.
I can remember my physics professors bringing it up in a really big way when I was still just a freshman in college. They always cautioned us then about extrapolating our everyday intuitions about everyday objects beyond their native realms. Anyone who has been graced or grazed by a modicum of process thinking, say Whitehead or Bucky Fuller, is aware of the trade-off between process thinking and product thinking that rules our descriptions of every domain of phenomena, but in a retrograde time like the one we are currently experiencing it takes a mighty effort to recollect the way that hidebound objects are precipitated from more primal processes. Here's an old post I happened on that may apply here: Ask Meno Questions • Discussion 1 http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2012/10/14/ask-meno-questions-%E2%80%A2-discussion-1/ http://web.archive.org/web/20121015213156/http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8791 Regards, Jon -- academia: http://independent.academia.edu/JonAwbrey my word press blog: http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/ inquiry list: http://stderr.org/pipermail/inquiry/ isw: http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/JLA oeiswiki: http://www.oeis.org/wiki/User:Jon_Awbrey facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/JonnyCache
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