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The Concept of Nature

CHAPTER IV
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This is a type of event which exhibits itself to us as the situation of a recognisable object; and in the example chosen the object is so widely recognised that it has received a name.

An object is an entity of a different type from an event.

For example, the event which is the life of nature within the Great Pyramid yesterday and to-day is divisible into two parts, namely the Great Pyramid yesterday and the Great Pyramid to-day.

But the recognisable object which is also called the Great Pyramid is the same object to-day as it was yesterday.

I shall have to consider the theory of objects in another lecture.
The whole subject is invested with an unmerited air of subtlety by the fact that when the event is the situation of a well-marked object, we have no language to distinguish the event from the object.


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