UNIVERSAL AND MULTI-LOCATION

It seems that when we try to describe the world we immediately encounter two different types of entities, on the one hand, we have objects such as atoms, electrons, events, planets, and so on, and on the other hand, things like charge, mass, wave width, color, among others. This can be seen both in science and in our everyday speech: science speaks of atoms with a certain amount of mass, or such an electron has a certain e-charge, or a cobalt surface tends to reflect light within a certain bandwidth. At the same time, when those of us who are less scientifically literate want to describe our surroundings, we do not speak exclusively of objects, but we assign them properties, certain dispositions, that is, we strengthen them with statements such as “it is green”, “it is heavy”, “it is close to me”, and so on. This is a very everyday and unsophisticated way of referring to objects, which is indicative of how we relate to the world. It is true that an account of the properties that an object has may be erroneous by assigning it characteristics that it does not have by itself, “being beautiful,” for example; however, that does not lead us to dispense with them as a means by which we try to know the nature of an object.