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  • Thank you so much for your great answer, but I'm afraid you might have misunderstood my first definition, I didn't mean the property of having a second usage, I meant the second usage of things itself, maybe I should have described the question that the teacher had asked, the question was to go in two squares of the city, consider an object from each square, and talk about it, so choosing the first definition would be to consider the second usage of several items in both squares, e.g. the Cobblestone on the ground and for instance say that in the first square it was used also as a billboard.
    – yukashima huksay
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 13:24
  • since there was a lot of advertisement pained on it. but in the second square it was used as a bumper because it made cars go slower. and do the same thing for other items such as benches, trees, etc. As for the second definition, the project would be to investigate the content of trash cans in both squares and interpret it, I thought it could be very interesting because trash can holds the stuff people discard. And that has a lot to do with their culture and the way they think. specially noting that one square was in a poor area and the other was in a rich area of the city.
    – yukashima huksay
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 13:27
  • @yukashimahuksay If you can describe it at all it would be an "object" by the umbrella view. It may not be an object under the object vs property or object vs subject distinction. The different uses may have enough subjectivity to make them not objects by the third definition. The object would be the cobblestone. The subjective part the use made of the cobblestone.
    – Frank Hubeny
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 14:36
  • So if a certain definition is subjective, as in, different people would have different understandings of that definition based on their own personal assumptions and beliefs, that won't be an object?
    – yukashima huksay
    Commented Oct 8, 2019 at 18:41
  • @yukashimahuksay The object vs subject would be more the difference between an 'it' and a 'you'. It is just another way to have more categories than the one umbrella view of object. The subjective component of the first definition may fit this.
    – Frank Hubeny
    Commented Oct 9, 2019 at 3:36