THERE are objects or possessions that scream "I'm better than you" -- items that remind the average Joe of a cultural and economic divide that cannot be crossed.
Scattered here and there are objects found along the beach — fist-sized stones clustered around the freestanding fireplace, ropy lengths of driftwood, the thick section of a tree trunk, now used as a coffee table.
A possibilist denies this, maintaining that in some possible worlds there are objects, properties, or relations that are not found in the actual world.
I can't just open the doors and let people in: the house is very small, and there are objects everywhere.
And then there are objects, like the meteorite that dug a 60-foot-wide crater in Peru last September.
Finally, there are objects that seem to have beliefs and desires, toward which we take the "intentional stance".
There are objects it takes time to notice: a rifle here, a cat there, a shadowy form in a doorway.
But there are objects, too -- a map you might only find in Athens; a bracelet made in Moscow.
Yesterday, when asked about this, a spokesman for the authority said that if there are objects standing in water, "they will be immediately put up on wooden blocks".
What if there are objects outside a pen and paper, a phone that serve the same function as parts of the brain, enabling it to calculate or remember?
There are objects like tubes, pipes and beakers in which it seems that liquids and powders could be poured and mixed.
