If laws are just properties of objects, how can those laws continue to operate when the object is not really there?
Objects exist and if one pays more attention to them than to people, it is precisely because they exist more than the people. Dead objects are still alive. Living people are often already dead.
Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
During the earliest stages the child perceives things like a solipsist who is unaware of himself as subject and is familiar only with his own actions.
Common sense says that chairs and tables exist independently of whether anyone happens to perceive them or not.
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write.
It's wrong for kids to be angry about something inanimate.
One of the earliest lessons I learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back.
Like many men, I can never find anything that I'm looking for, even when I'm actually looking at it. In a fridge, I think milk is actually invisible to the male eye. And so, it turns out, are dirty great holes in the fence.
