Object Oriented Ontology

Object oriented ontology notes

Theory of everything
The four major pitfalls faced a theory of everything are:

Not a materialist worldview (seems to be a neutral monist view)
 * physicalism
 * smallism
 * anti-fictionalism
 * literalism

What is an object
"If someone asks us what something is, we might respond with millions of different sentences in an attempt to answer their question. But ultimately there are just two ways of tell- ing somebody what a thing is: you can tell them what it is made of, or tell them what it does."
 * anything that cannot be entirely reduced either to the components of which it is made
 * or to the effects that it has on other things.

Overmining in the history of philosophy
Completely zoned out in this part

Five Features of Metaphor

 * 1) Does not give thoughts of perceptions of an object, something in its own right
 * 2) Non-reciprocal
 * 3) asymmetrical
 * 4) Only object is our self
 * 5) act of coupling