ject distinction that Cyc uses.
This doesn't really address your more general claim, though, that there are
far fewer ordinary physical objects in the world that we might be inclined
to think.  I agree that there are many things in this world that aren't
ordinary physical objects and also that this notion is somewhat fuzzy, but I
do see an awful lot of paradigmatic objects as I look around my office.  I
see a chair, a desk, a computer terminal, a keyboard, a cup, a bookshelf, a
whiteboard, a phone, a plant,