Objects are what matter. Only they carry the evidence that throughout the centuries something really happened among human beings.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
Most of the things in 'The Things They Carried' didn't happen to me. Ninety-five percent of it's invented. It's not what occurred.
In archaeology, context is everything. Objects allow us to reconstruct the past. Taking artifacts from a temple or an ancient private house is like emptying out a time capsule.
Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them... may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.
Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.
Most importantly, I agree that the truth of these matters should be determined by interpretation of scientific evidence - experiments, fossil studies and the like.
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.