In truth the object in its completeness may be conceived as a specific set of correlated modifications of the characters of all events, with the property that these modifications attain to a certain focal property for those events which belong to the stream of its situations.

The total assemblage of the modifications of the characters of events due to the existence of an object in a stream of situations is what I call the 'physical field' due to the object.

But the object cannot really be separated from its field.
The object is in fact nothing else than the systematically adjusted set of modifications of the field.

The conventional limitation of the object to the focal stream of events in which it is said to be 'situated' is convenient for some purposes, but it obscures the ultimate fact of nature.

From this point of view the antithesis between action at a distance and action by transmission is meaningless.