Given a system of particulars which is a physical object, I shall define that one of the system which is in a given place (if any) as the "appearance of that object in that place.
According to the view that I am suggesting, a physical object or piece of matter is the collection of all those correlated particulars which would be regarded by common sense as its effects or appearances in different places.
It revives the dead, completes the fragmentary, and affords us the opportunity of seeing a work of art (a physical object) as its author saw it, at the moment of production.
To begin with, I do not know how "physical object" is to be defined, and I shall not try to define it.
One great reason why it is felt that we must secure a physical object in addition to the sense-data, is that we want the same object for different people.
But although, in this case, there is a physical cause for the sense-data, there is not a physical object corresponding to the sense-data in the way in which an actual naval battle would correspond.
The real table, if it exists, we will call a 'physical object'.
A mirror which is itself a physical object is an active condition for the situation of a patch of colour behind it, due to the reflection of light in it.
But a physical object is a condition for the occurrence of sense-objects other than those which are its components.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "physical object" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
