"a worldly object" is a grammatically correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to any material or physical object that is associated with the worldly or earthly realm, rather than the spiritual or divine realm. Example sentence: The monk renounced all his possessions and worldly objects in pursuit of a more spiritual life. This phrase can also be used in a metaphorical sense to describe something that is focused on materialistic or superficial concerns. Example sentence: She was so obsessed with her appearance and acquiring worldly objects that she forgot about the more important things in life.
Broad does not equate or identify the perception of a worldly object with the sort of immediate acquainting awareness we have (or seem to have) with its facing surface (pace Chisholm, 1957, p. 154).
He is well known as an advocate of The Theory of Representational Realism, according to which our perceptions are indirect cognitive transactions with the world: a perceptual experience of a worldly object is not an immediate awareness of the object itself, but mediated by an immediate awareness of a sensum.
That encounter evinces a particular feature: the other impacts me unlike any worldly object or force.
We take a sentimental response in ourselves, say envy, and attribute to the worldly object a feature it doesn't really have, such as being enviable.
(This view has the merit of explaining the apparent "transparency" of descriptions of experience i.e., the fact that the words a person uses to describe his experience always apply at a minimum to the worldly object the experience is of).
When a person describes his experience, he will use words, such as red and oval, that describe not the experience (e.g., the image) itself but the worldly object the experience is of.
(DJN IV.4.4) Before or without such agreements, worldly objects are in a state of negative community, meaning that they belong to no one in particular but lie open for anyone to use as needed.
Barth cites Homer's descriptions of the "wine-dark sea" and "rosy-fingered Dawn," as claims on worldly objects that have daunted writers down through the ages.
Euthymiae Raptus; or the Teares of Peace (1609), Chapman's major poem, is a dialogue between the poet and the Lady Peace, who is mourning over the chaos caused by man's valuing worldly objects above integrity and wisdom.
It is perfectly plausible that emotions and thoughts that relate to God are mediated by the same circuits in the brain that mediate similar responses to worldly objects and activities.
This means that, in its purest and philosophical sense, nature is not perceptible in the same way the worldly objects are.
