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Sha-do poster by steve naegeleSha-do poster by steve naegeleReelShado poster by steve naegeleReelShadosha-do poster by steve naegeleReelShado poster by steve naegeleReel ShadoReel Shado0 7Reel Shado0 7Reel Shado0 7doorsReel Shado 11 posterReel Shado 11 posterdarumaeveryday thingsmemememememe posterme poster by steve naegeleme8 poster by steve naegelefire hydrantguinomiyuinomijapanese potterypotteryMy Feetmy feetMy FeetMy FeetMy FeetMy feet poster by steve naegelefeet seven posterRound poster by steve naegeleCircle poster by steve naegeleCircle postercircle poster by steve naegelecircle postercircle postercirlceposter by naegeleCirlces poster by Steve Naegelesteve naegele design posterTransamerica BuildingTransamerica BuildingTransamerica BuildingJapanese store poster by steve naegele everyday thingsBrickposterdoorslitter poster by steve naegelelitter posterlitter posterSora PosterSplitnimage PosterTom & Nance poster by steve naegeleJudi PosterPeople posterSan Francisco Postersan franciscosan francisco posterSan Francisco posterkind of blue posterWhast is it poster by steve naegeleikebana postertop of the Stop of the ssteve naegele street posterTinStop [poster by Steve NaegeleO in STOP posterStreetSeen poster by steve naegeleStreetSeenoutside corneroutside corneroutside corner poster by steve naegelesha-do Hands postersan francisco postertokyo poster by steve naegeleconversaysioncaMEra psotere by steve naegele

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What is a thing book

Book: What is a Thing?. Some pages about what is a thing and why things are important. A PDF file, 5mb

The word “thing”, the concept “thing” is one of the most important and interesting creations of humans and every culture shares it. A thing is a basic, discrete integral unit of human experience. A tree, an arm, a person, a smile, happpiness, success, a career, a war, a molecule, etc. Having a word which represents a thing enables us to clearly talk toeach other. We measure things, we count them, divide them, put them in normal curves and go to therapy for our feelings about them.

Probably in early history what defined a thing was the presence of the non-thing known as “air”—the tree is different from the mountain because there is air between them. It took thousands of years before science figured out that air was also a thing (even though the Greeks suggested it).

A thing can be material such as “car”, “table”, “mountain,” it may be more independent such as “body” or part of a larger thing like “hand,” it may be conceptual such as happiness, and a thing such as a smile or intelligence or beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and there are such things as integrity and honesty,

But while we share, or believe that we share, a common definiton of any specific thing, its more complicated. A thing such as a table—Whats the problem we all know what a table is— is a concept that we apply in a specific situation. If you ask me to go in the next room and get the book off the table and bring it back, if when I go in the next room the “table” might be the strangest looking table I ever sdaw, but still I will see it as a table. Perhaps I cannot even call it a table because of what it looks like, but only because of its function (a rose is a rose...).

While culture teaches us a common language, each of our experiences are unique and the meaning of the language may differ from person to person. And this meaning is inside of us, not apparent to others except if we express it, and someone hears it.. We may express it by words and again these are abstractions and sometimes misleading. Later when behaviours occur people find that they did not hold the same meaning for the “thing” resulting in an argument, court of law, a killing or a loss of friendship.

I discuss this in the “What is a Thing” book (available as a pdf download) which is more fun.

This is a collecton of posters where each of the pictures share something in common—they are same things. At the same time on any poster you can see how different each thing is from the other.