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In philosophy, an object
is a thing, an entity, or a being. This may be taken in
several senses. In its weakest sense, the word "object"
is the most all-purpose of nouns, and can replace a noun
in any sentence at all. (In ordinary usage, the word has
something like this effect, but not as extreme.) Thus
objects are things as diverse as the pyramids, Alpha Centauri,
the number seven, my disbelief in predestination, and
your mother's fear of dogs. Philosopher Charles S. Peirce
defines the broad notion of an object as anything that
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