order | definition | examples | properties |
---|---|---|---|
1 | entities that are said to exist | physical objects: persons, animals, things | relatively constant as to their perceptual properties; located in space and time; publicly observable |
2 | entities that are said to occur / to take place | events, processes, states-of-affairs | located in time |
3 | entities that form the object of propositional attitudes | abstract entities: propositions, concepts | have no spatio-temporal location |