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Topic: Physical objects

	Metaphysics degree programs - Karma-Net
		Metaphysics (Greek words meta=after/beyond and physics=nature) is a branch of philosophy, and related to the natural sciences, like physics, psychology and the biology of the brain; and also to,mysticism religion, and other spiritual subjects.
		The apple is an excellent example of a physical object: one can pick it up, throw it around, eat it, and so on.
		Some people say not—they say that without physical objects, space would not exist, because space is the framework in which we understand how physical objects are related to each other.
	www.karma-net.com /listings/metaphysics.htm (914 words)

	Analyzing Spiritual Matter During Spiritual Travel
		If one looks at objects in an attempt to determine if one can tell the difference between an object in the inner world and a physical object, it seems impossible to tell the difference.
		She seemed, at least on the surface, to be a normal child that one would meet in the physical world.
		The traveler can determine through this kind of experimentation that there is no obvious way to distinguish physical objects and, to a lesser extent, individuals from nonphysical objects and individuals.
	www.spiritualtravel.org /OBE/material.html (1493 words)

	Other Properties of Mechanical Objects
		A physical object has, at each instant of time at which that object exists, some one of the masses as its mass at that instant.
		While it is often presumed that physical objects have constant masses, it has also always been understood that this is a matter of idealization rather than of reality.
		What is true, rather than that physical objects have constant masses, is that physical objects under investigation by physicists do not normally undergo significant changes in their masses during the course of the investigation.
	home.att.net /~zei/TMKelso/mechanical_objects.htm (934 words)

	Physical Mediumship
		Physical mediumship is the process whereby someone, in Spirit, usually known as a spirit operator (as compared to a spirit communicator), works or operates through the mental AND physical energies of the medium and causes something physical to happen on the Earth plane.
		Physical mediumship should only be practised in properly controlled environments with the correct supervision and safeguards in place to ensure the safety of the medium.
		Objects called trumpets are used for this type of communication, they are conical shaped objects with holes at both ends.
	ghosts.monstrous.com /physical_mediumship.htm (586 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Common sense would seem to have it, however, that there is one basic sense in which physical objects actually do exist, and that is as an object that belongs to the space-time system that is the world with which people are in direct contact.
		Physical object O exists if, and only if, O is, at present, spatially located in the universe with which we are in contact.
		Typically, the discussions in which this claim arises are discussions of the existence of physical objects.
	www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_existence_of_physical_objects.html (848 words)

	SENSE DATA AND THE PERCEPT THEORY
		THE PHYSICAL OBJECT AND THE OSTENSIBLE PHYSICAL OBJECT
		Whether, therefore, our general concept of physical object is in some sense "derived from" the presentation of ostensible physical objects in perception, or whether it is in one or another sense "a priori", the indisputable fact remains that we do possess two concepts corresponding to the terms "physical object" and "ostensible physical object".
		From this point of view it is clear that physical objects, because they are things the properties of which cannot be discovered by direct inspection of a single state of perceptual consciousness, cannot reasonably be said to be "directly presented" or "given" in such a state of perceptual consciousness.
	www.ditext.com /firth/spt6.html (2062 words)

	Physical Markup Language
		The Physical Markup Language was not designed for the particular needs of the chemist or mechanical engineer, but for the more generic requirements of supply chain management, logistics, inventory monitoring, manufacturing control, consumer information and waste management.
		In other words, although some objects may be composed of a complex assembles of parts and systems, their individual subcomponents are, in assumed, monolithic.
		Physical objects described by PML may include solids, liquids and gases.
	web.mit.edu /mecheng/pml/spec_physical.htm (1546 words)

	Steps towards a logic of natural objects
		The natural objects that I propose to consider are broadly those physical objects which are studied and referred to by science and by a common sense view, informed by science, of the world.
		Natural objects, by contrast, interact intensively with the rest of the world, and this interaction in fact cannot be separated from their nature.
		A pair of objects is not, usually, a single object (although in special cases one will consider certain pairs as a unit; for example a married couple is an object in legal considerations).
	faculty.baruch.cuny.edu /lkirby/naturalobjects.html (5074 words)

	Representation of Models for Expert Problem Solving in Physics
		Canonical physical objects are idealized objects that are meaningful in physics or mathematics, such as a point mass, a circle or an ideal rope.
		Whereas a canonical physical object is an abstraction of one or more objects, a physical model is a physical interpretation of a situation involving objects and their relationships.
		Due to the transparency of the linkage between the physical models and the original objects, the physical models are made independent of the representations of the actual objects, which might contain a variety of informal features and relations of the real world.
	www.cs.utexas.edu /users/novak/tkde91.html (3977 words)

	Physical - Overview
		Physics engines are generally seen as luxury items in game design - nice ways to add special effects to a game, but generally just a graphics tool and not something central to a game.
		A programmer just has to create a physical object (first drawing the spaceship in a paint program, then loading the image into Physical's included object editor to make it into an actual physical object that can be simulated) and then give it a few properties.
		Using the object editor, the programmer can designate where he wants the engines to be, and then using Physical's simple programming framework he can create actuators at those points that apply forces in response to user input.
	www.cis.cornell.edu /boom/2005/ProjectArchive/physical/overview.htm (595 words)

	interdisciplines : Referring to Objects : Tracking objects, Tracking agents
		If this ontology is correct, the identity conditions of physical objects (including the bodies of human agents or animal organisms) can be explained on the basis of mind-independent causal properties and composition principles – such as chemical composition and genetic properties for living organisms, continuity criteria for objects in general, and so on.
		One of the clues to this uniqueness is that, as with ordinary physical objects, each body follows a continuous and unique spatio-temporal path from birth to death.
		First, the distinction between object and agent tracking is required by the ontological theories of personal/self identity which are not consistent with the thesis of the co-instantiation expressed in section 5, which states that a human agent is co-instantiated with his/her material human body.
	www.interdisciplines.org /objects/papers/5/1/1/language/en (7371 words)

	Active Objects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Physical virtual interfaces, multi-sensory richness of physical objects, ubiquitous and embedded computing, familiar objects, animate objects, intuitive interfaces, calm technology, embodied virtuality, ease of comprehension, simplicity, revealing technologies, the element of surprise / wonder, discovery, control, predictability vs. unpredictability, information and entertainment.
		Basic features of these objects are that they gather information and adapt to their environment, that they can communicate with other appliances and that they can react to the user and the environment.
		Objects that may look and feel familiar, yet they extend themselves into the virtual domain with a simplicity and ease that gives them a feeling of the extraordinary, or the magical.
	people.interaction-ivrea.it /t.rawat/thesis_page_final_active.html (3663 words)

	Idea - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Wundt widens the term to include “conscious representation of some object or process of the external world.” In so doing, he includes not only ideas of memory and imagination, but also perceptual processes, whereas other psychologists confine the term to the first two groups.
		When a man, for example, has obtained an idea of chairs in general by comparison with which he can say “This is a chair, that is a stool,” he has what is known as an “abstract idea” distinct from the reproduction in his mind of any particular chair (see abstraction).
		Furthermore a complex idea may not have any corresponding physical object, though its particular constituent elements may severally be the reproductions of actual perceptions.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/i/d/e/Idea.html (888 words)

	20th WCP: Philosophy as Metaphysics
		Objects of this type (with some reservations) are a lot of human being phenomena, such as love, virtue, conscience, courage, bravery, understanding and so on.
		Metaphysical objects — constructs cannot be given in frameworks of physical experience; the study — constructing of these objects occurs by a way of thinking means, procedures of speculation.
		It is important to emphasize, that these metaphysical objects do not exist in the same sense, as it is for the particular objects of a physical reality, such as table, chair,etc.
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Meta/MetaKatr.htm (2059 words)

	Ideas/Emotions as Physical Objects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This page of the databank may be freely copied for non-commercial research/instructional use provided this copyright notice is included.
		The physical objects may be, but need not be, viewed as being within the agent's mind, when this is metaphorically viewed as a physical space.
		The physical objects can be of any sort, small, large, rigid, non-rigid, liquid, animate, inanimate, etc. In particular, a mass of ideas is sometimes viewed as a unit, and in that case it may be viewed as a body of fluid (cf.
	www.cs.bham.ac.uk /~jab/ATT-Meta/Databank/Metaphor-Descriptions/ideasANDemotions-AS-physical-objects.html (129 words)

	Open Source Physical Objects: Limor Fried and her x0xb0x Synthesizer (joi.tv)
		Watch the video Open Source Physical Objects: Limor Fried and her x0xb0x Synthesizer - a conversation between hacker/artist Limor Fried (and#34;Lady Adaand#34;) and Joi Ito with Phil Torrone of Make Magazine.
		Open Source Physical Objects: Limor Fried and her x0xb0x Synthesizer - a conversation between hacker/artist Limor Fried ("Lady Ada") and Joi Ito with Phil Torrone of Make Magazine.
		With Ito and Torrone, she proposes that this is a promising model for "open source physical objects" - extending the permitted hackability of software to hardware.
	joi.tv /2006/04/open_source_physical_objects_l.html (330 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy of Mind - theories of color perception (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		If one proposes that the colors we perceive physical objects as having are properties of physical objects (as is claimed by physicalist and dispositionalist proposals about the constituting nature of color), then an explanation of how it is colors are perceived as properties of physical objects is relatively straightforward.
		Most intentionalists hold physicalism about the nature of color, which claims that the colors we attribute to physical objects in visual states are physical properties of physical objects.
		According to dispositionalism, the colors we perceive physical objects as having are dispositions of physical objects to produce perceptual responses.
	philosophy.uwaterloo.ca /MindDict/colorperception.html (1969 words)

	Physical Markup Language
		Physical objects - both natural and man-made - often display a hierarchical structure..
		To describe a hierarchy, we use a common analogy of a tree whose elements are arranged as branches and leaves.
		In other words, some objects are mechanically coupled, such as a nut and bolt, and other are logically coupled, such as a tea service.
	web.mit.edu /mecheng/pml/spec_config.htm (1003 words)

	Hyponoetics - Essay: The Evolution of Exonoesis
		The object of perception is ontologically and essentially different from the physical object itself.
		Leaving aside the intricate problem of how a physical object relates to the mental object, we realize now that both objects are essentially different.
		The object of reflection is different from the object that results from reflection.
	www.hyponoesis.org /html/essays/e019.html (1964 words)

	Dualism&Materialism
		Physical objects have physical properties (e.g., mass, size, shape, density, etc.) and are involved in physical processes (e.g., motion, gravitational interactions, electro-magnetic interactions, etc.).
		Hence, it would be a physical object, not a non-material entity as the Dualist supposes.
		The only way to causally interact with a physical object is in space and time through the operation of physical forces (e.g., gravity, electro-magnetism, nuclear forces), and this requires that both cause and effect are physical.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Kapitan/Dualism&Materialism.html (1195 words)

	Concepts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Physical objects contained within a chassis are often referred to as subchassis objects or modules.
		Objects in the Physical view are ordered according to their relative physical location.
		All objects in Cisco 12000/10720 Router Manager have a state assigned to them which appears at the bottom left corner of each FCAP window for a selected object (see Figure 2-6).
	www.cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/c12km/3_2/u_guide/concepts.htm (2821 words)

	Dualism&Materialism
		Physical objects have physical properties (e.g., mass, size, shape, density, etc.) and are involved in physical processes (e.g., motion, gravitational interactions, electro-magnetic interactions, etc.).
		Hence, it would be a physical object, not a non-material entity as the Dualist supposes.
		The only way to causally interact with a physical object is in space and time through the operation of physical forces (e.g., gravity, electro-magnetism, nuclear forces), and this requires that both cause and effect are physical.
	www.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Kapitan/Dualism&Materialism.html (1195 words)

	Objects
		The physicist belongs to another realm, which is "material" in these sense of «our ordinary commonsense notion of physicality, as for example in these in which everyday concrete objects are physical, such as tables and chairs, fields and hospitals---the so-called "furniture of everyday life"» [OOO 141].
		That is, predicable concepts, as unsaturated cognitive structures based upon capacities to identify, characterize, and relate objects in various ways, are complemented in speech acts by referential concepts as cognitive structures that enable us to refer (or purport to refer) to the objects that we characterize and relate to one another.
		Although (some) objects are intuitively perceived as wholes (e.g., the apple), an analysis (= "decomposition") of the object is still possible and can identify properties (attributes) of the object like shape, color, texture, taste, and so on, which can be predicated of the object.
	www.cs.mun.ca /~ulf/gloss/obj.html (6463 words)

	Mathematical Objects
		Mathematical objects are what we talk and write about when we do math.
		Math objects are not physical objects, but we think about them and talk about them as if they were.
		object in a sentence, and can be described as having properties in the same way that we would describe a physical object having properties.
	www.abstractmath.org /MM/MMMathObj.htm (2329 words)

	On Gödel's Philosophy of Mathematics, Chapter II
		It seems to me that the assumption of such objects is quite as legitimate as the assumption of physical bodies and there is quite as much reason to believe in their existence.
		the axioms are to the mathematical objects as the laws of physics are to physical objects.
		The ontological questions raised by considering mathematical objects as real objects, by "believing in their existence," represent an area of disagreement among many philosophers who, for the most part, are in agreement as to the methods and content of mathematics.
	www.friesian.com /goedel/chap-2.htm (3926 words)

	Physical world
		It was a belief that a simple mathematical relationship must be physically significant which led Kepler to discover his third law of planetary motion.
		Although Newton had made a clear distinction between a mathematical theory and a physical reality, Berkeley argued that he had fallen into his own trap for he spoke of forces as physical entities, where Berkeley believed that they were nothing other than terms in the equations set up by Newton.
		The distinction, he argues, between mathematical theories and physical situations is that mathematics is a construction of the human mind, whereas nature is independent of the human mind.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/HistTopics/World.html (2451 words)

	Epistemological Problems of Perception (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		These facts are claimed to point inexorably to the conclusion that the direct or immediate object of such an experience, the object that is given, is an entity produced at the end of this causal process and is thus distinct from the physical object, if any, that initiates the process.
		According to the phenomenalist, to believe that a material or physical object of a certain sort exists is just to believe that sense-data of various sorts have been experienced, are being experienced, will be experienced, and/or would be experienced under certain specifiable conditions.
		On the contrary, in most ordinary situations, it is material objects and situations that are the primary and usually the exclusive objects of the perceiver's explicit awareness and thought, with no hint that this awareness has been arrived at via any sort of transition from anything else.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/perception-episprob (8597 words)

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