Most contemporary metaphysicians are sceptical about the reality of
familiar objects such as dogs and trees, people and desks, cells
and stars. They prefer an ontology of the spatially tiny or
temporally tiny. Tiny microparticles 'dog-wise arranged' explain
the appearance, they say, that there are dogs; microparticles
obeying microphysics collectively cause anything that a baseball
appears to cause; temporal stages collectively sustain the illusion
of enduring objects that persist across changes. Crawford L. Elder
argues that all such attempts to 'explain away' familiar objects
project downwards, onto the tiny entities, structures and features
of familiar objects themselves. He contends that sceptical
metaphysicians are thus employing shadows of familiar objects,
while denying that the entities which cast those shadows really
exist. He argues that the shadows are indeed really there, because
their sources - familiar objects - are mind-independently real.
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