# Material Beings

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- Book: [Material Beings](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-van-inwagen/material-beings) ([Material Beings.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-van-inwagen/material-beings.md))
- Authors: [Peter van Inwagen](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-van-inwagen)
- Publisher: Cornell University
- ISBN: 978-08-0148-306-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 1995-11-16
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The topic of this book is material objects. Like most interesting concepts, the concept of a material object is one without precise boundaries. A thing is a material object if it occupies space and endures through time and can move about in space (literally move about, unlike a shadow or a wave or a reflection) and has a surface, and has a mass and is made of a certain stuff or stuffs.