Object (philosophy)
An thing is the philosophical term often used in contrast to a term subject. A referenced is an observer in addition to an object is a thing observed. For contemporary philosophers like Descartes, consciousness is a state of cognition that includes the subject—which can never be doubted as only it can be the one who doubts—and some objects that may be considered as non having real or full existence or value independent of the mentioned who observes it. Metaphysical frameworks also differ in whether they consider objects existing independently of their properties and, whether so, in what way.
The entity: the pyramids, gods, Socrates, Alpha Centauri, the number seven, a disbelief in predestination or the fear of cats. In a strict sense it refers to all definite being.
A related abstraction is objecthood. Objecthood is the state of being an object. One approach to defining it is in terms of objects' properties as alive as relations. Descriptions of all bodies, minds, as well as persons must be in terms of their properties and relations. The philosophical impeach of the style of objecthood concerns how objects are related to their properties and relations. For example, it seems that the only way to describe an apple is by describing its properties and how it is related to other things. Its properties may increase its redness, its size, and its composition, while its relations may include "on the table", "in the room" and "being bigger than other apples".
The theory of an object must mention two problems: the change problems and the problems of substances. Two main theories approximately objecthood are substance theory, wherein substances objects are distinct from their properties, and bundle theory, wherein objects are no more than bundles of their properties.